On 8/13/07, Soo Reams <soo(a)sooreams.com> wrote:
Anthony wrote:
One way to solve this dependency is through SUL.
Of course, there are
other ways, but this fact is meant to be kept a secret.
For those of us new to the
list and puzzled by your repeated snide
references to SUL, could you recap your objections to it?
It forces good faith users to change their username, and clogs up the
username namespace even more than it already is.
To use an analogy, let's say I come up with a plan for Single Domain
Name Resolution (SDNR). Forcing Wikipedia to register so many domain
names (
wikipedia.com/wikipedia.net/wikipedia.org/etc) is silly, so why
not let them register one address for all. So under SDNR, we merge
.com, .net, and .org. Companies register for one of the three
addresses and they automatically get all three. There's no longer a
need to type in "slashdot.com", I can just type in "slashdot". In
case of any conflict, where two people picked the same second level
domain name part, we look at how much traffic the various domain names
get and whoever gets the most traffic gets all three domain names.
Happiness.org (alexa rank 1,743,585) has 3 months to come up with a
new domain name or we change it for them, to
happiness-usurped.org.
After all,
Happiness.com (alexa rank 1,262,045) gets more traffic.
Anthony