Hey, I got a better idea. Let's give each socket a "human-friendly" name. Translating back and forth to the underlying numerical representation should be easy

Hey, I got a better idea. Let's give each socket a "human-friendly" name. Translating back and forth to the underlying numerical representation should be easy enough.[1] Heck, we could even create a centralized system for managing our new namespace. OMG, maybe we could charge people money for the names? Yes! We're rich! And the result: Hundreds of millions of "parked" domains serving up cheap advertising. Simply brilliant! 1. See Hobbit's comments in netcat source code for a differing opinion. I often wish that people like djb or Hobbit (=low tolerance for nonsense) had designed the systems that we are now stuck with. Though they are only applications, netcat and ucpsi have aged well and remain a pleasure to use.