PKI creed (was Re: Trustworthy contacts)

[Adam Atkinson (ETL)]

> > Since the Sun is a British publication, www.sun.co.uk would
> > be a more logical first guess than www.sun.com anyway.
> 
> Bzzzt.  Wrong answer.  I wanted http://www.sunspot.net but 
> thank you for
> playing.

Well, I didn't know which "The Sun" you meant, but this being
ukcrypto assumed it was the UK one. I don't know what the UK "The 
Sun"'s website is, though I don't actually expect it is 
www.sun.co.uk.

Current ".com" lunacy is making a real mess of namespace, though.
Lots of things that should be .co.uk are in fact .com, for no
very good reason.

Of course, it could be argued that more use should be made
of .us.

> As you undoubtedly knew, www.sun.co.uk is no better than 
> www.sun.com anyway.

Well, the first guess for the web site of uk company "foo"
ought to be www.foo.co.uk.

> I think I've made my point now.  Carl is quite correct: a 
> simple list of
> names does not make an adequate directory in the modern 
> world.  To be useful
> and reliable it must also contain, either directly or 
> indirectly, a great
> deal of contextual information.

Well, yes. I'm not particularly overwhelmed. If I lived in Rhode
Island and someone else in Rhode Island asked me for the web site 
of "The Sun" perhaps I'd go for the Rhode Island one first. If you 
mean the non-local-default "The Sun", you should say so. This doesn't 
seem a particularly new insight.

There are quite a few "Adam Atkinson"s in the world. There are
even quite a few with non-trivial numbers of mentions in the web
and on dejanews. It isn't overly hard to work out which ones are me.