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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