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- Newsgroups: can.domain
- Path: sparky!uunet!van-bc!xenitec!eah
- From: eah@xenitec.on.ca (Ed Hew)
- Subject: locality abbreviations (was Re: What is this group for?)
- Organization: XeniTec Consulting, Kitchener, Ontario, CANADA
- Distribution: can
- Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1993 04:04:38 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan03.040438.7309@xenitec.on.ca>
- References: <1992Dec26.055055.8277@julian.uwo.ca> <1992Dec29.175746.13732@newscan.canada.sun.com> <C082x8.GCt@wimsey.bc.ca>
- Sender: edhew@xenitec.on.ca
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- [In the message "Re: What is this group for?", Stuart Lynne <sl@wimsey.bc.ca writes... ]
- } CA guidelines allow xxx.ca, xxx.prov.ca or xxx.municp.prov.ca depending on
- } the size and scope of your business/organization etc.
- }
- } My personal opinion is that this approach leads to domain names that are
- } too long. [...]
-
- I've always had an aversion to making names longer than absolutely
- necessary. We went around the "what is a proper city name" merry-
- go-round at some length this last spring in committee. Unfortunately,
- no one could find any "official city abbreviation list", so city
- abbreviations were disallowed. If anyone is aware of such a list,
- please forward this info to me so that I can present it to the
- committee. The topic was revived in committee last week, and I
- hope that we'll have a reasonable locality abbreviation policy
- incorporated into the guidelines in short order. If we could find
- a list pre-prepared by some government agency, the task would be
- much simpler.
-
- I really don't want to see registrations like foo.niagara-on-the-lake.on.ca.
-
- --ed
-