[Gllug] Re: XNS and .NET

[Gordon Joly]

At 17:33 +0100 2001-07-10, tet at accucard.com wrote:
>  >The whole XNS thing seems like a bit of a crap idea to me though, can
>>someone explain to me why it isn't?
>
>Nope, sorry. It appears to be an attempt to provide a flat namespace
>for the entire internet. The problem is that the net is too big for
>that to work, and the current hierarchical system works much better...
>


I am sometimes get annoyed by UK companies who get a .COM domain.

But there again I chose pobox.com for email and web aliasing (for life?)

Gordo (waiting for multicast)

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