Rick Moen wrote:
Quoting Rohan McLeod (rhn@jeack.com.au):
Rick Moen wrote:
..........snip Yes; well " " does seem logically ( in the sense of 'not specific to any nation') ; to be a good fit for 'international'; I hope you take no offence by my saying I am a bit puzzled by the concept of " " -- unless it's some sort of non-technical metaphor
Not at all; my linguistic standpoint is very definitely that the responsibility (and thus blame); is mine alone; that is if some word or term of mine fails to convey it's intended meaning ether by conveying : 1/a different meaning, 2/ no meaning or 3/ a multitude of meanings; the fault is mine alone !. By 'standpoint ' I intend: " a situation in which two or more points-of-view or approaches are possible; but only one is chosen." . So a 'standpoint' could be found to be untenable, but not false; in contrast with a 'theory' say which can be 'falsified'. An example of a different ' linguistic standpoint' would be one where responsibility was shared with the reader; as with contextual or metaphorical usage of words. Should you be interested in my eccentric linguistic standpoints and theories; there is a longer exposition at:. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0aOfcVEMVoKbk1BWG9xejl5UHc/edit?usp=sharing The concept of " " is intended non-technically, but not metaphorically as a symbol for, 'no national domain specified' ; if you have a better suggestion be my guest !
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By the time we have a multiplanetary civilisation, I suspect the current Internet will be at best legacy infrastructure,
That sounds interesting; I take it you are not just talking about the hardware or future iterations of IP packet versions (IPv4 , IPv6 ,....etc) ?
if not gone. Near earth orbit is not so far a network issue. (I once heard a good talk by one of the founders of the Internet about what he called 'interplanentary internets', but that talked about IP packet handling problems, not domain namespace.)
So domain namespace (nomenclature ?) was not considered an important problem ? regards Rohan McLeod