and it is of course centred on the Internet and so can't be used to gateway between other networks directly, which they assumed would be necessary. They also didn't see that everyone would basically be running the same protocol with minor variations on their computer networks, which is kind of the point here. With an effectively de-facto standardised way, not only of interconnecting networks, but also of connecting networks internally, the IP model seems more sane than it perhaps did then. The thing is the naming generally follows the addressing scheme, and since the addressing scheme is not path-based (bloody good thing too, if you ask me), then neither will the naming scheme be.
I did have an interesting discussion about the alternate root stuff with a Tiscali NOC op, where he was basically pointing out that the alternate roots have come about because "IANA won't supply people with the names that they want" and companies like KPMG and CocaCola have management and marketing types who would really like TLDs for their respective companies rather than just the 2LDs that everyone and his dog has. Tiscali's nameservers use an alternate root - because this is what people want, and marketing think they can get something out of it.
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Date: 2005-10-13 14:58 (UTC)They also didn't see that everyone would basically be running the same protocol with minor variations on their computer networks, which is kind of the point here. With an effectively de-facto standardised way, not only of interconnecting networks, but also of connecting networks internally, the IP model seems more sane than it perhaps did then. The thing is the naming generally follows the addressing scheme, and since the addressing scheme is not path-based (bloody good thing too, if you ask me), then neither will the naming scheme be.
I did have an interesting discussion about the alternate root stuff with a Tiscali NOC op, where he was basically pointing out that the alternate roots have come about because "IANA won't supply people with the names that they want" and companies like KPMG and CocaCola have management and marketing types who would really like TLDs for their respective companies rather than just the 2LDs that everyone and his dog has. Tiscali's nameservers use an alternate root - because this is what people want, and marketing think they can get something out of it.