There are actually operational issues if not standards related ones here.
Discussion in Australia about management of the .AU ccTLD is discussing
amongst other things services like !Banggo for WAPsters who cannot stand
to try and type alpha URI and are therefore using a numeric redirection
schema to get short URL off the number-pad to jump off to websites.
This has a direct impact on what people think DNS is providing, what
'addressing' and naming mean for mixed-protocol/application contexts, and
probably some societal/governance issues as well.
The horror, the horror...
cheers
-George
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