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Wild that there hasn’t been some sort of standardization yet. Current: - http://albanycountywy.gov http://albanycountywy.gov - http://albanyga.gov http://alb
by xyst 2y ago
Wild that there hasn’t been some sort of standardization yet.
Current:
- http://albanycountywy.gov http://albanycountywy.gov
- http://albanyga.gov http://albanyga.gov
- http://albanyla.gov http://albanyla.gov
- http://albanyny.gov http://albanyny.gov
- http://albanyoregon.gov http://albanyoregon.gov
Proposed:
{name}.{county|city|parish…}.{2 letter state abbreviation}.gov
- albany.county.wy.gov
- albany.city.ga.gov
- albany.city.ny.gov
- albany.city.or.gov
Then can easily distinguish between local, regional, state, and federal resources.
Local resource:
- parksandrec.albany.city.ga.gov
Regional resource:
- cad.albany.county.wy.gov
State resource:
- senate.ny.gov
Federal resource:
- fbi.gov
- nsa.gov
As a citizen, would make it very easy to find what you are looking for. Plus the added benefit of trust with .gov. Reduces the risk of our vulnerable citizens (elderly) getting phished.
- acc_297 2y agohttps://xkcd.com/927/ https://xkcd.com/927/
- xaldir 2y agoHard to standardize after decades of use. Each of these are well known to the public, referenced everywhere. Changing this would be painful and the benefice is not evident.
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- duped 2y agoWhat do you do about Springfield Township(1) and Springfield Township(2)? (1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield_Township,_Burlington_County,_New_Jersey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield_Township,_Burlingt... (2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield_Township,_Union_County,_New_Jersey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield_Township,_Union_Co... Point being that government is messy and exists to cover _all_ cases, not the common case.
- Larrikin 2y agoThem having their own nearly random URLs that doesn't differentiate them is not a better solution.
- duped 2y agoI don't think they're "nearly random", they're just inconsistent. And it's a better solution because it works today and doesn't require a central authority to manage (and when you're talking about the tens of thousands of distinct government bodies in the country that central management overhead is the thing to optimize)
- kube-system 2y agoIf the problem is inconsistency, and you want to fix that, you'd need to propose a solution that can be consistent, otherwise you still have the same problem.
- mattl 2y agospringfield.burlington.nj.us and springfield.union.nj.us something like that Note that Burlington County already has http://co.burlington.nj.us/ http://co.burlington.nj.us/
- arionhardison 2y agoI took a shot at standardizing just a health domain: <city>.<state/district>.<country>.medicare.dev. example: Medicaid.dev -> https://marina-del-rey.ca.us.medicaid.dev/ https://marina-del-rey.ca.us.medicaid.dev/ Medicare diff so - https://samhsa.medicare.dev/ - https://phm.medicare.dev/ - ...
- TZubiri 2y agoI can tell you don't work in the government because you are surprised at the notion of a federated state lacking unity.
- mistrial9 2y agook but .. no.. humans fight to the death over authority.. there is a tension between expansion and structural consistency.. physics has concepts of entropy! .. creative assertion: a growing system will never be completely in sync with itself. Reading the other comments, you can see how much influence "engineering" and "orthogonal design" actually have.. not much. Perfect librarianship of living entities has benefits, but overall seems unrealistic IMHO.