Re: [idn] The Business Card problem (was: Re: An experiment with UTF-8domainnames)

[John C Klensin <klensin@jck.com>]

--On Wednesday, 10 January, 2001 08:58 +0100 Dan Oscarsson
<Dan.Oscarsson@trab.se> wrote:

> If we would like to have an alternate form of domain name on
> business cards that could be used in most countries, we could
> use something like this: Dan.Oscarsson@23.456.346.2.0
> where this is a number registered as equivalent with my normal
> domain name. The number can be looked up through DNS and
> handled as normal domains. The only difference is that the
> name is composed of only digits (to be really portable) and is
> not related to the characters in the normal domain name. And
> here you could even change the spelling of the normal domain
> name and have the number version remain the same. 

This is, of course, a slight variation on the argument that has
been made to ICANN for supplementing the "normal" DNS with a
system based on telephone numbers but with mappings paralleling
normal DNS records rather than telephony ones (e.g., to A, MX,
and NS RRs, not to NAPTR ones).

> Why not give
> everybody in the world their own domain name in the number
> format when they are born, to be theirs for life?

Besides the privacy outcry it would cause in some countries? :-(

    john