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Re: [Inip-discuss] Domain Names

Andrew Sullivan <ajs@anvilwalrusden.com> Wed, 13 January 2016 22:43 UTC

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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.

(I'll return to this thread when I have more time, but this already
shows how existing terminology makes our life hard.)

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