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- Newsgroups: can.domain
- Path: sparky!uunet!van-bc!sl
- From: sl@wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lynne)
- Subject: Re: What is this group for?
- Organization: Wimsey Information Services
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 10:39:08 GMT
- Message-ID: <C082x8.GCt@wimsey.bc.ca>
- References: <1992Dec26.055055.8277@julian.uwo.ca> <1992Dec29.175746.13732@newscan.canada.sun.com>
- Lines: 65
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- In article <1992Dec29.175746.13732@newscan.canada.sun.com> gerrys@sun.com writes:
- >In article 8277@julian.uwo.ca, wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith) writes:
- >|>Well?
- >|>
- >
- >
- >The purpose and goals of the the group have been discussed thoroughly in
- >can.uucp, to which I subscribe, and possibly others. I suggest you examine
- >the pertinent articles therein.
-
- Anyone interested in domain name topics should probably look at the new
- RFC-1386 titled "The US Domain" by A. Cooper and J. Postel.
-
- The current approach to use of the US domain is similiar to what the CA-domain
- committee is moving too. Assigning names based on political geography. It is
- implemented a bit differently and possibly a bit more consistently. For example
- it does not appear to allow ibm.us but would require ibm.armonk.ny.us.
-
- 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. Which leads to problems with use due to being incorrectly transcribed.
- I would like to see a solution that requires at most three tokens and a minimum
- of characters for the non-organization part.
-
- Some examples:
-
- New guidelines:
- xxx.municp.prov.ca wimsey.port-moody.bc.ca
-
- Just keep it to provinces:
- xxx.prov.ca wimsey.bc.ca
-
- Or use first three digits of postal code:
- xxx.postal-code.ca wimsey.v3h.ca
-
- The reason I would like to keep it to three tokens and minimum char's at this
- level is that we tend to add more tokens to the left when in use. For example
- on vanbc:
-
- XXXX.wimsey.bc.ca questor.wimsey.bc.ca
- XXXX.wimsey.v3h.ca questor.wimsey.v3h.ca
- XXXX.wimsey.port-moody.bc.ca questor.port-moody.wimsey.bc.ca
-
- where XXXX is a uucp neighbour will get delivered properly. If those hosts
- wish to further sub-divide their namespace:
-
-
- YYY.XXX.wimsey.bc.ca sun.questor.wimsey.bc.ca
- YYY.XXX.wimsey.v3h.ca sun.questor.wimsey.v3h.ca
- YYY.XXX.wimsey.port-moody-bc.ca sun.questor.wimsey.port-moody-bc.ca
-
- And don't forget we need to add a user name:
-
- user@YYY.XXX.wimsey.bc.ca John_Doe@sun.questor.wimsey.bc.ca
- user@YYY.XXX.wimsey.v3h.ca John_Doe@sun.questor.wimsey.v3h.ca
- user@YYY.XXX.wimsey.port-moody-bc.ca John_Doe@sun.questor.wimsey.port-moody.bc.ca
-
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