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samwillis on May 8, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Vint Cerf on mistakes he made in TCP/IP

So basically just "what three words" but for IP. Just don't let a VC backed company own the address space and then encourage public/government organisation to adopt it!

ly3xqhl8g9 on May 8, 2023 [–]

Funny idea, wanted to write some quip on why it's bad, given the inherent polysemy, but someone already did it [1].

[1] "What’s wrong with what3words?", Chapter 3, "offends.people.easily", covers it, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqK0ciE0rto

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