Re: names are not numbers, was IPv4 address length technical design

2012-10-07 Thread Barry Shein
Back in the 80s when DNS was a fairly new idea and things like Google were way in the future I remember suggesting on the TCP-IP list that people grab a phone number they owned as a domain name and add first_last as a mailbox so we could leverage the international phone directory system to find ea

Re: names are not numbers, was IPv4 address length technical design

2012-10-06 Thread Joe Hamelin
On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 6:14 PM, John Levine wrote: > > > Hey, I've got a great idea. Let's lose this silly phone number > portability nonsense and use phone numbers as routes. > You do not want to go down the hell hole that is SS7. -- Joe Hamelin, W7COM, Tulalip, WA, 360-474-7474

Re: names are not numbers, was IPv4 address length technical design

2012-10-06 Thread John Levine
In article <20592.28334.622769.539...@world.std.com> you write: >It's occured to you that FQDNs contain some structured information, >no? Hey, I've got a great idea. Let's lose this silly phone number portability nonsense and use phone numbers as routes. I mean, anyone who moves and takes his ce