John Cowan wrote:
>> Schemer's could, for example, agree to allocate names using their
>> GPS coordinates plus UST timestamp as the authority. ICANN is not
>> involved.
>>
>
> There are obvious quibbles: what happens when you move into the house
> I formerly occupied?
>
That problem is why a UST timestamp is included. You and I occupied that
house at different times. In effect, we are leveraging the de facto
circumstance
of rough global syncronization of clocks and agreement on map coordinates
in order to create a name-space in which every person has, in principle,
as many
names as they care to allocate up to the limits of clock precision. Some
exclusion principle is at work: no two people are in exactly the same
place
at the same time so if we have a coordinate system for places and times
then,
wherever and whenever you are, there is a name there that you can pick
up and use.
-t
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