I think he points to the fact that reverse domains look a lot more like tree structures which humans are inherently very capable of understanding. With the curr

I think he points to the fact that reverse domains look a lot more like tree structures which humans are inherently very capable of understanding. With the current system the human url decoding process goes something like this: * "Find the third forward slash in this string ..." * "Read backwards & split on dot, there ya go: the tree path of the organization giving me this information ..." * "Now, skip forward to that slash again ..." * "From here on, split on the slash & that will be the tree path leading to the data this organization wants to give me" We're probably all conditioned to it now, but it's not exactly beautiful ...