Re: iTLDs

[martin hamilton <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, 13 Nov 1996 [e-mail] wrote:

> However, note that a "URL for further information" may or may not
> exist (the company may be a startup and not be up to speed yet,
> or may for policy reasons wish to be an e-mail only participant
> behind a firewall).  Also, "type of business offered" may be
> problematic for inclusion in a database, unless we specifically
> remember to be *very* flexible.  What business is Phillip Morris
> in (or any other conglomerate)?  What about the company in
> Florida that was recently in the news, who as *one* of their
> specialty cleaning services, remove the evidence from crime scenes?

It's perhaps also worth bearing in mind that there isn't necessarily a
one-to-one correspondence between organisations and domain names ?

> Note - they come in and clean bloodstains and the like *after*
> the police are satisfied, not clean up for organized crime figures
> before the police arrive ;)  I suspect that there's a *really* fat
> Ph.D. thesis in it for anybody who figures out how to make this
> anywhere near natural-language searchable, for more than just English.
> 
> Actually, I take that back.  If *I* knew how to do it, I'd say
> "<explitive> the sheepskin", hack code, make a killing on the IPO,
> and then relax. ;)

:-))

> I admit to senility - is there an active list for discussing these
> sorts of directory issues, or should I look at creating one so
> we can move this whole thread there?

Well...  I created the deploy list (see below) because I hadn't been able
to find an existing forum, though there are a number of directory services
and New Domain ;-) type lists.  The thread would be welcome to move over
in this direction.

Cheerio,

Martin

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| draft-klensin-tld-whois-00.txt, and draft-ietf-find-new-cip-00.txt