Glasgow mafia meeting at PLDI

Ian Lynagh igloo@earth.li
Sun, 24 Jun 2001 12:16:28 +0100


On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 01:36:50PM +0000, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
> 22 Jun 2001 19:56:15 -0600, Alastair David Reid <reid@cs.utah.edu> pisze:
> 
> > 2) Whilst looking through the hierarchy, we decided that using "Org"
> >    was a bit unfortunate since it could lead to silly-looking names
> >    like Org.Org.Haskell.... and, worse, downright confusing names
> >    like Org.Com.Galois.
> 
> Wouldn't putting domain names in the root of the hierarchy be OK?
> The set of top-level domain names is very stable and there are
> no clashes.

I can't easily see the proposal ATM, but if you own a domain then surely
you already have namespace you can use under the email (user?) top
level? I'm not convinced the domain top level is necessary.


Ian