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Seems like the easiest metaphor for this is "DNS for GPS" - i.e. in the same way DNS translates IP addresses into something human-readable, this translates lat-
by corry 12y ago
Seems like the easiest metaphor for this is "DNS for GPS" - i.e. in the same way DNS translates IP addresses into something human-readable, this translates lat-long into something easy to remember and work with.
- wuliwong 12y agoI disagree. No algorithm connects google.com to whatever IP Address it is associated with. In this case, there is a one-to-one correlation. Functionally it is somewhat similar, but you could figure out the location of one of these crazy names by running through a simple algorithm, locally. You don't need to make requests to a remote server, to do the DNS lookup. I would also disagree that these "names" are easy to remember. :) They are pretty random. I doubt these names follow any of the "rules" that human language does, either. They are mapped to a system of numbers. Human languages share some common rules and organization, I believe.
- fluidcruft 12y agoYou could apply the algorithm to IP quads. But I agree, it's barely better than Base58. It's like "BasePhoneme" or something.
- wuliwong 12y agoI'm not sure what you mean by applying the algorithm to IP quads? If you give me the name "google.com", there is no algorithm I can apply which yields the IP address, correct? Because that IP address could be reassigned to a different name, right? The only way I can make the connection is to do a DNS lookup, which I thought is essentially just searching a database for "google.com" and returning me the corresponding IP address.