Re: [RAI] [drinks] FW: Global Service Provider ID - draft-pfautz-service-provider-identifier-urn-01

["Worley, Dale R (Dale)" <[e-mail]>]

> From: Dean Willis [[e-mail]]
> 
> [...] but the fact that "It's not an ITAD" makes it easier to sell
> to carriers (because it doesn't come with the expectations of an
> ITAD and an existing pool of users), [...]

I think this shouldn't be underestimated.  My experience is that
people in the telco world (even very smart people) are much slower to
change things than people in the Internet world, both due to their
organizational history (many companies have been in business since the
nineteenth century) and their operational realities (having your
network failures reported on the front page of all the newspapers in
the nation tends to make one cautious).

It's quite possible that even if the service providers intend to open
the system to all competitors, they still feel a visceral resistance
to an identifier that was not originally purposed for identifying
service providers like themselves.

> This leads me to suggest an alternative acronym: the "Generic
> Operation Numerical Administrative Domain", or GONAD. Think of it as
> a generative organ for future internet services that need
> numerically scoped identifiers. Besides, I've often thought that
> gonads should be registered; they cause a lot more damage than
> personal firearms.

And what if one cannot get a "concealed carry" permit for one's
GONADs?

Dale