On Tue, 14 Nov 1995, Daniel Karrenberg wrote:
To repeat: The second soloution proposed provides all aspects of provider independence. Why should we waste address space if wasting it does not provide significant additional functionality?
"Wasting" this space enables the use of URLs like: http://user.domain.foo/ While your suggestion will only enable URLs like: http://user.domain.foo/bar/ or http://user.domain.foo/~bar/
From a marketing point of view it makes A LOT of difference. I wouldn't call it "wasting" address space. I would preffer the term "utilizing" address space.
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