CircleID

Next we’ll purge all history books of references to Yugoslavia because the name is no longer in use? George Orwell would be impressed by the efficiency of modern technology – we don’t need to cut and paste to purge history. We just need to a system that requires makes disappearance the norm – it’s called the DNS.

What is telling is that they are encouraging the active users of the YU domain to hurry up an change. This treats the Internet as if it were the phone network and only for calls that exist while phones are off-hook. What about all of the URLs that reference content that can’t defend itself – all the knowledge and legacy information?

As I explain in http://frankston.com/?N=AmbientConnectivity the idea of the Internet as a network is interesting in an historic context but misses what we’ve learned since then – the Internet as a way we make society’s knowledge and experience available to the future.

This is such a fundamental failure to understand the very reason why the Internet is so important that I don’t know what to say and how to explain it. We’re confusing the Internet demo phase with its real enduring value.

It might eventually happen, but as of 2009-10-02 yu. still has NS records in the root servers.