> But you're basically accusing programmers back in the late 70s of having insufficient foresight to see problems that would make their decisions seem bad almos

> But you're basically accusing programmers back in the late 70s of having insufficient foresight to see problems that would make their decisions seem bad almost half a decade later. The URL standard was published in 1994. Sure, in a vacuum you could read view my comment as meaning in all time, but given that the parent comment is discussing ICANN domains and my comment was relevant to that, I think it’s a little uncharitable to do so.