From: Martin Hamilton <M.T.Hamilton@lut.ac.uk>
Message-Id: <199402212308.XAA29881@lust.mrrl.lut.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Finding URN->URL servers
To: dupuy@smarts.com (Alexander Dupuy)
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 1994 23:08:57 +0000 (GMT)
In-Reply-To: <9402212102.AA11688@brainy.smarts.com> from "Alexander Dupuy" at Feb 21, 94 04:02:37 pm
Alexander said:
/ To take the current favorite example, ISBNs, you have a two-level delegation
/ space (by country and publisher id). If we were to create an .0.ISBN.URN.INT
/ domain, I suspect that it would make the current .COM domain look rather
/ svelte. Of course, we could split the ISBNs digit by digit, and reverse them,
/ in the same way the telephone number address space is mapped into the .TPC.INT
/ domain, but recognizing that 64.5.7.1.7.3.9.0.ISBN.URN.INT is the domain name
/ for the ISBN 0-937175-64-1 (Programming perl) is not very intuitive.
Aha! But (for instance)
3.9.3.5.6.2.9.0.5.4.4.tpc.int == 44509265393.iddd.tpc.int
:-)