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Originally Posted by hans2010
In an analogy, there's some part that's relevant, and some part that's not. That's why it's called an analogy. If you attack the part that's not relevant, it doesn't mean that the relevant part is "spurious". You didn't say why that particular analogy is spurious in its entirety.
The hosts.txt analogy provides relevance in that it helps us to visualize (in a general way) a scenario where arbitrary registrations are allowed at the top level... that's all.
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But you're comparing a situation where having a large number of top-level objects became unworkable with one where it's a non-issue in order to imply that the latter may be absurd. This makes your analogy completely spurious.
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Nobody said any future scenario would exactly match that situation in every detail.
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I'd say that your position now boils down to: if the increase in the number of TLD were managed in an absurd way, then the increase might be absurd.