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Re:Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL by toast0 on Thursday September 06, 2018 @11:04PM (#17931574)
I don't see how you could enforce a hostname binding to some real world identity. Hostnames really need to have a non-ambiguous mapping from a name to a computer (more or less), but real world entities don't have that, without using really cumbersome indentifiers. Many natural persons share a name, so how do we decide who gets a hostname based on that; the same is true of corporate persons -- there are many that share names. Even if there was a way to disambiguate these things, it seems unlikely that the entity in charge of this would also want to rub a public registry -- so how do you make that work.
Re:Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL by slavik81 on Friday September 07, 2018 @02:43AM (#17932321)
Absolutely. People don't have a single coherent model of identity in the real world. It's hard to glue certs to a pile of sand. Did I buy lunch from "Tim Horton's", from "The TDL Group Corp." or from some random company with an address for a name? The answer is yes to all three, despite only buying one lunch.