--On Wednesday, September 17, 2003 02:50:51 AM -0700 Vadim Antonov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:




If we take a step back, we could say that the whole Verisign incident
demonstrated pretty clearly that the fundamental DNS premise of having no
more than one root in the namespace is seriously wrong.  This is the
fallacy of "universal classification" so convincingly trashed by
J.L.Borges in "The Analytical Language of John Wilkins".  Sigle-root
classifications simply do not work in real-world contexts.

... for objects which are created outside said classification and need to/
want to/should be classified in it. However, the DNS does not pretend to classify
anything existing outside it in the real-world but implements a namespace
with the stated goal of providing unique identification (which still requires
a single-root)


So this argument is bogus IMHO...

matjes

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