On Aug 5, 2009, at 1:30 PM, Jorge Amodio wrote:
It may sound too futuristic and inspired from science fiction, but
I never saw
Captain Piccard typing a URL on the Enterprise.
That's ok, I've never seen the Enterprise at the airport.
Go to Dulles Airport. She used to be on the runway a long time; now
she is at the Udvar-Hazy Center there.
Don't know what this has to do with URIs, though.
Marshall
Don't confuse sight with vision.
Sooner or later, we or the new generation of ietfers and nanogers,
will need to
start thinking about a new naming paradigm and design the services
and protocols
associated with it.
The key question is, when we start?
Let's see how far the SMTP replacement has come, and get
some inspiration.
Heck, it's an application that only _uses_ the DNS, should
be easy.
It won't be quick, it won't be easy, and you will have to deal with
the establishment
that at all cost will keep trying to squeeze money out of the
current system.
Cheers