Design Failures
Transcribable, but not easily spoken
- aitch tee tee pee colon slash slash double-you double-you double-you dot eye see es dot you see eye dot ee dee you slash tilde fielding slash
Hierarchical path assumes only one root
- not true for FTP resources, leading to ambiguity
- gopher path isn't layered left-to-right
Reliance on DNS as only naming authority
- vanity hostname explosion
- flat namespace under dot com