JFS>> Similar problems occur with most other naming systems,
>> but they become especially difficult when you're talking
>> about abstract stuff like information. (01)
PH> True, they do get rather tricky.... See the archives
> of the Web architecture (TAG) working group, to get
> a sense of how hard this is. (02)
There never was a time when discovering, maintaining,
transmitting, and protecting identities was easy. (03)
EB>> ... Ultimately, technology enabled us to get control of it,
>> and fires and plagues forced us to. But it took 7 centuries.
>> I hope the Internet experience is shorter. (04)
PH> Following your analogy, the other thing about the internet
> is that it is getting bigger faster than we are learning how
> to use it. Its like living on an expanding planet. Maybe thats
> why it stays rather like the wild west. (05)
As Imus would say, it's a bitch. (06)
John (07)
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