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- From: fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald)
- Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
- Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 02:24:24 GMT
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- djk@boombox.apana.org.au (David Keegel) writes:
-
- > Myself,
- > I'd love to see all the USA Universities move to .edu.us and the USA
- > only companies (ie: not sun.com, hp.com, etc) move to .com.us, but I
- > don't see it happening.
-
- It won't. For one thing, the .org, .com etc. domains, which everyone
- assumes are all US organizations, in fact contain a bunch of non-US
- organizations that don't want to register under their national domain.
-
- Several of Wang's foreign subsidiaries are under <country>.wang.com; this
- is fine, but I'd hate to have to move them to <country>.wang.com.us.
-
- Also, there's no reason to assume that country codes will be at the top of
- the tree forever. The reorganization in the former .su and .yu is showing
- the defects of country codes very clearly, and it's only a matter of time
- before non-national and non-earthbound organizations get into the act.
-
- > Anyway, my point is that even if appropriate authorities in the US
- > decided now that they wanted to phase out .edu and .com, it is quite
- > possible that they would still be some use of them in the year 2000.
-
- This is wildly optimistic. We'll be lucky if the .MIL sites have finally
- gotten away from the damned HOSTS.TXT by 2000, and that was decided years
- ago.
-
- --
- Tom Fitzgerald Wang Labs fitz@wang.com "I went to the universe today;
- 1-508-967-5278 Lowell MA, USA It was closed...."
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