Re: A philosophical question about large directory structures

On Wednesday, 23 Jun 1999, Erik Skovgaard writes:
> The DC namespace is poorly suited for the Directory since the Internet host
> names are not all guessable.  For instance, if I were to look up Canadian
> Airlines, I would have to *know* that the hostname is 'cdnair.com'.

We are going a bit off track with these messages about namespace.

The namespace should mainly be unique. That would be provided by DC.
Finding something should not be tried to achieve by guessing the right
name, but by searching for it (index/directory).

> Since the Directory name registration is closely tied to the legal names of
> companies in most countries, I think that makes for a much better choice.
> I would rather find Canadian Airlines as {o=Canadian Airlines, c=ca} than
> the somewhat cryptic {dc=cdnair, dc=com}.

And how about the official name of Canadian Airlines in French and the
DN you proposed?

What is the official name of a company?
	Acme	or Acme Inc.	or Acme, Inc.

Just as an example of quite ugly and non-guessable names, the official
name of Sun in Switzerland:
	Sun Microsystems (Schweiz) AG

Thomas