At 19:08 18/11/2004, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
--On torsdag, november 18, 2004 10:26:07 +0100 "JFC (Jefsey) Morfin"
<jefsey(_at_)jefsey(_dot_)com> wrote:
The least they want to hear is "relative ease of acquiring v6 address
space" even least than "relative ease to delpoy". This is what we think
great. This is something they do not even understand. They want a
permanent numeric ID they will be able to use everywhere. Just in
powering up.
You know, just like a mobile number.
you know, there was this newfangled thingie invented a few months ago
called a "name".... not only can you get it for nearly-free, it's actually
written in letters so that you can tell someone else what it is without
having to Spell Out All These Numbers.... gosh, I've even heard of people
REMEMBERING them..... sometimes even on the first try.....
and oh yes, you can use it with some fancy stuff back on the Internet to
look up stuff like those silly numbers you never want to look at again...
I think they call it the Domain Name System or something....
Numbers are for losers and technologists.
oh! Dear... was this written by Harald ????
What do you intent to say ? Until now you were the only one prefectly
reasonable ....
oh! yes I know: today is Beaujolais nouveau.
jfc
BTW just made the count it was 249 months ago that I started using names
made of a root, customer and host part. Is that what you refer to?
But you over looked the numeric names. If you know about datacoms (and
Internet) history you know the part they plaid. And how we can praise
Dominique Marchand for what she did with them.
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