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Re: [Inip-discuss] Domain Names

Suzanne Woolf <suzworldwide@gmail.com> Wed, 13 January 2016 22:49 UTC

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From: Suzanne Woolf <suzworldwide@gmail.com>
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Cc: Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net>, inip-discuss@iab.org
Subject: Re: [Inip-discuss] Domain Names
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On Jan 13, 2016, at 5:05 PM, Lyman Chapin <lyman@interisle.net> wrote:

> 
> On Jan 13, 2016, at 2:28 PM, Warren Kumari wrote:
> 
>> Lyman's definition is technically correct ("The best kind of correct"),
>> but, yes, not necessarily satisfying - it is like a complex mathematical
>> proof showing that the shortest path between two points is a straight
>> line[0]. This is really important when needing to formally validate
>> something, but not so useful when trying to ask your plumber to run a new
>> line to the sink....
> 
> I don't think I agree with your analogy, because the important distinction is not between formal (mathematical proof) and informal/practical (instructions to the plumber); it's between identity and meaning. The namespace of interest here is organized in a specific way, as a labelled directed rooted tree; that's a deliberate choice that suits the purposes of the domain name system, but might be a poor choice for some other name space intended for some other purpose.

Does Section 1.1 of RFC 2826 ("Maintenance of a Common Symbol Set") help at all here?


Suzanne

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