- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 15:45:25 PDT
- To: uri@bunyip.com
Any naming system that uses current DNS domains and expects long term
persistence also requires at least a low-frequency time stamp, because
current DNS domains are not guaranteed long term persistence.
I think 'year' is good enough, but 'year and month' might be better.
1993 xerox.com documentID
Note punctuation elided. If year=currentyear, use DNS, otherwise use
some other service.
> Does ease (or difficulty) of creating and extending the name space
> affect persistence? If it is easy to create a naming authority, will
. this work against persistence?
I think the key element isn't 'ease of creating' but 'frequency of
reassignment'. We should all have heard of the cases of 'mtv.com' and
'kaplan.com' and 'bbb.com' already, right?
Received on Wednesday, 16 August 1995 18:46:00 UTC