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Re: [wg-c] Retraction of previous proposal



Mark C. Langston wrote:
> On 30 July 1999, "Martin B. Schwimmer" <martys@interport.net> wrote:
>>
>>And as to your remarks regarding the irrelevancy of DNs due to the use of
>>search engines, would you then agree to a single new TLD consisting
>>entirely of numerical addresses?  If not, why not?

> We have those already.  They're called IP addresses.
> I'm perfectly happy with IP addresses.

You can do things with domain names that you can't do with IP addresses,
like name-based virtual hosts and backup mailservers.

Regards,
-- 
Onno Hovers, onno@surfer.xs4all.nl