A little bit of meta to distract us from all the politics/commerce! The Workshop on Internet-scale Software Technologies -- 1999 > > *** Internet-Scale Namespaces *** > > August 19-20, 1999 Irvine, California, USA > >================================================================= > http://www.ics.uci.edu/twist99/ >================================================================= > >Internet-scale namespace management has emerged as a crucial issue >in scaling software and network technologies to the numbers of >people, devices, and agents online. Every namespace, from MIME >type to stock symbol to domain name, represents a bundle of >political, economic, social, and technical decisions. Many >namespaces are bumping into new limits to growth: human-friendly >names for Web resources, the domain name service, public key >infrastructures (PKI), and ad-hoc federation of embedded computers >a la Jini, to name four. These are not merely limits of sheer >massiveness: the latest generation of commercial directory servers >claim to vend hundreds of millions of names with ease, as do >planetary-scale Web search engines. > Esther Dyson Esther Dyson Always make new mistakes! chairman, EDventure Holdings interim chairman, Internet Corp. for Assigned Names & Numbers [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1 (212) 924-8800 1 (212) 924-0240 fax 104 Fifth Avenue (between 15th and 16th Streets; 20th floor) New York, NY 10011 USA http://www.edventure.com http://www.icann.org High-Tech Forum in Europe: 24 to 26 October 1999, Budapest PC Forum: March 12 to 15, 2000, Scottsdale (Phoenix), Arizona Book: "Release 2.0: A design for living in the digital age"
