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Mike K:
"Here's what I came up with in the bar: the US Postal Service (USPS) needs to become the equivalent of the Domain Name Service for geographic locations. ... The USPS is already resolving ambiguous address data into physical locations.
Why not make name-to-location resolution the primary role of the postal service?
For example, rather than having your address be 'Your Name, 1234 Oak Street, Town, State, Zip Code' you could pay to have it be 'Your Name, Town, USA.' Microsoft could pay to have their address just be 'Microsoft, USA.' ...
This would create a market like the market for domain names, which is very lucrative and active, but - unlike the domain name space - the post office would own all of it. They could just set up a name registry like what GoDaddy does, let people register names and then regulate the secondary market, much as how ICANN manages domain names."
Originally from Orange Cone reBlogged to on May 31, 2010, 7:42PM