The access to the naming system is public, but to call it a public naming system is like calling
phone book a “Public Phone Book” (Talking of the paper phone books of history)
Cinema a “Public Cinema”
Dictionary a “Public Word Book” Even “Word Definition Book” is better
Supermarket’s price list a “Public Price List”
When something is inherently public then adding “Public” to the front is senseless and of the same vein as calling “DNS”Domain Name System system OR DNS System. It is doubling up and begs the question where is the Private Naming System
Right, sorry I’ve failed to get my point over clearly, sorry.
I wasn’t arguing for calling anything Public Whatever, I was trying to say that, just because the document you find is available for anyone to retrieve, doesn’t imply that private things cannot occur as a result of retrieving it. And so there’s no misnomer calling it public (if you so wanted to).
Thanks that makes more sense. [tongue in cheek] So we can dispense with PeNiS and choose a better one on Friday. That will be a relief to all us school boys who have aged too many years
I don’t think we should lose sight of the fundamental purpose of these names: to make urls readable, type-able, pronounceable; allowing humans to communicate effectively, and in a way that we all know we are talking about the same thing.
Solving squatting or ownership issues should com secondary to this, and we need to be wary of unintended consequences when trying to ‘fix’ a problem such as this.
Yeah, squatting will happen for sure, but on the clear net, it’s also been responsible for creating uniqueness, and people work around it quite happily.
It seems to me that a simple naming solution with no middle men (or any other layers of complexity) + the potential for a pet naming system on top, gives us all we could need in terms of that fundamental purpose.
It takes an already widely used and understood term among end users (even if it is not etymologically ‘pure’, it clearly describes the entity. Yay language!) and gives it the wiggle room to evolve on its own. Rather than lots of upfront explaining required.
Could that be added to the poll?
It also wouldn’t preclude out the use NRS along side it, if SDNS doens’t get past the @rob filter
Personally I don’t mind. But it would be a good idea to not use PNS when discussing the thing during the period before for definitive choice. Certainly if that will turn out to be a long period.