User:Pavithrans/Interesting facts

Some of the interesting facts from the video interview of Paul Mockapetris, the inventor of Domain Name System.
 * 1) "People thought of DNS as nice little problem with no consequence at that time "
 * 2) "Facebook is to some extent the directory of internet", "We are gonna need 7 billion identities soon "
 * 3) "I developed the 1st floor of DNS and 2nd floor and people added 10 more floors"
 * 4) "First domain name has '.arpa'  as we decided to take existing names and add '.arpa' at the end in the table ."
 * 5) " I want to know why if I am in switzerland my google data is more protected than if I am in US ?"

Directory service
Yahoo as a search engine was able to successfully to an extent list and categorize websites and serve as the phone directory, when we look at it from an individual personal social profile Facebook definitely is a leader in coming somewhere close to "phone book" , it does have its disadvantages as searching in facebook is not as straightforward as searching in "yellow pages" where a name even if exists might not be shown. One main reason could be that the user has explicitly asked for his profile to be "not listed", other could be the search algorithm deciding that one user and his social properties are irrelevant for the user who is searching.

Data protection Laws
Data protection laws differ from country to country, and switzerland like many european countries have strict data protection laws. Now in the outbreak of NSA scandal many european countries are demanding the cloud service providers like google,facebook,amazon etc to safeguard their citizens data by insisting on keeping the data in the same country itself and be subject to all the laws of the country.

Arpanet
Having "Dot Arpa" as first top level domain name was obvious considering ARPANET was the first packet switching network and the existing one during the design, but I think that some other domain names are too US centric for example one being ".mil " , ".gov" which are top level domains and for every individual domain name all other countries should add the country code(Ex: .fr ) suffix .The naming system reeks of not being neutral for every country on the planet earth.