On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 01:31:11PM -0700, Karl Auerbach wrote:
| On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Clark C . Evans wrote:
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| > - it uses DNS to gaurentee uniqueness
|
| That's not a solid foundation for uniqueness. There are multiple DNS
| spaces in use. One is almost completely dominant, but others do exist.
It's good enough.
| The object identifier space used for MIBS is much more usable for
| uniqueness.
Too obscure. With the Internet DNS system I can go to one
of many sites, pay my $11 ransom and rent a domain name
for a year. Even my aged aunt grocks DNS. ;)
Clark
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