On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 17:21 -0500, Manfredi, Albert E wrote: > -----Original Message----- > > From: Pars Mutaf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > I'm arguing that only a local solution is realistic because > > users cannot possibly remember domain names (especially if there > > are many of them). They can only remember "human names". In > > addition, there is no evidence that such special domains will exist. > > > > Hence the local solution (discussed below). Within a cellular > > local network, we can cover a large area and share our phone > > numbers easily over long distances. This is much better than > > using Bluetooth (which requires short distance user contact). > > But I'm not pretending a global solution. > > Pars, I'm not sure why a local-only solution is very helpful. The guy > across the room at a conference may well have a cell number from a > different country. If that case isn't included in this solution, I'm > not sure how attractive it is.
Hi Bert, Conference room is a too old an uninteresting example. This is very attractive in the cellular context. For example, you buy a new phone, you are impatient to call someone you know (who lives in the area). But you don't have the phone number yet. You can even call that person for asking another person's phone number (who is not here). You don't think about all these possibilities today, simply because you assume that you cannot do it. > In any case, what makes this any different from people's e-mail > address > book? E-mail addresses are global, and I guess most people do not keep > them in their heads either. They use address books, which are > hopefully > backed up somewhere. Same goes for web sites in the favorites or > bookmarks folder. Easier with DNS than using IP addresses, but still > not easy enough. I'm not sure if you see the context I'm talking about. > I think the name collision issue is what makes these proposals > difficult. OK may be I'll stop talking as if I invented multicast DNS. Collisions are not my problem. I don't think they are a technical problem. You are looking for John Smith, the phone will scan all John Smiths in the local cellular network, and you will receive 'n' results. (My proposal comes into play only after that.) If John Smith is a too much colliding name, this is John Smith's problem. We cannot penalize many other users for that. Are you arguing that this protocol is impossible and cellular users will never be able to do that? Thanks, pars > > Bert -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
