On 8/13/07, Soo Reams soo@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