Quoting Rohan McLeod (rhn@jeack.com.au):
So domain namespace (nomenclature ?) was not considered an important problem ?
Well, not by Vinton Cerf in his talks on the subject, anyway. BTW, here's coverage: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/05/vint-cerf-interplanetary-internet/ I first heard him talk on this subject in 1998 at the World Science Fiction Convention in Baltimore, as an unscheduled talk that Cerf suddenly offered. Seeing the hastily scrawled sign in the convention centre, I wandered in and was amused to see other members of the usual suspects of Linux/BSD persuasion also finding it. Cerf had some laptop setup problems with the projection equipment, allowing me to stand near the front and and indulge a golden one-liner: 'Excuse me: Is there anyone technical in the house?'