Re: [Inip-discuss] Domain Names

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 5:43 PM Andrew Sullivan <ajs@anvilwalrusden.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 07:28:25PM +0000, Warren Kumari wrote:
> > A namespace is all possible names that can be used to name "things" in a
> > class.
>
> This already fails in our case, if you mean "class" in the way DNS does.
>

Nope, I did not mean it in the way the DNS does - more "a set or category
of things having some property or attribute in common and differentiated
from others by kind, type, or quality.". I was thinking of putting in a
footnote mentioning this, but the point of the definition was that it
should be easily read and understood by someone unfamiliar with the A:
namespaces and B: the DNS.

>
> (I'll return to this thread when I have more time, but this already
> shows how existing terminology makes our life hard.)
>
>
You, sir, are a class[0] act, and are definitely in a different class[1] to
myself...
Terminology is hard, let's go shopping...

W
[0]: "showing stylish excellence."
[1]: "the system of ordering a society in which people are divided into
sets based on perceived social or economic status."

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