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- From: bo836@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Richard D. Mccombs)
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- Subject: Re: Top level domains (was Re: Mixed format addresses)
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- Date: 4 Jan 93 04:46:42 GMT
- References: <0QvRrAPBBh107h@boombox.apana.org.au> <TRSNYDER.92Dec30084303@vf0031.mcs.drexel.edu> <+j4NrAsCBh107h@boombox.apana.org.au> <930101.040025.7n1.rusnews.w165w@ricksys.lonestar.org>
- Reply-To: bo836@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Richard D. Mccombs)
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- In a previous article, djk@boombox.apana.org.au (David Keegel) says:
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- >In <930101.040025.7n1.rusnews.w165w@ricksys.lonestar.org> rick@ricksys.lonestar.org (Richard McCombs KB5SNF) writes:
- >>trsnyder@mcs.drexel.edu (Bob Snyder) writes:
- >
- >>> From RFC 1836: The US Domain:
- >>[..]
- >>> Their (sic) are no plans of putting all of the organizational domains .EDU
- >>> .GOV .COM etc., under .US.
- >
- >>Why not leave it that way?
- >
- >Because (f'r instance) .GOV ought to either mean "Governments of some
- >kind, all over the world" or "World governments". Well, that's what
- >seems logical to me, anyway.
- >
- >Now tell me, would the US Govt be happy to have the Australian Bureau
- >of Statistics being called "abs.gov"? Or does the US Govt claim to
- >govern the world?
-
- It wouldn't bother me, whatever works.
- >
- >Philosophicaly, I think the USA would look a lot less arrogant to the
- >rest of The Net if its govt depts/agencies were in gov.us or us.gov.
- >IMHO, the only govt with a right to be at the top level of .gov would
- >be the UN (unless they want to allow all comers).
-
- Well The Net did start here.
- >
- >Practically, I recognise that there are a *lot* of .gov sites out there
- >(in the USA at least), and that changing the domain for all of them is
- >about as likely as needing chains on your car in Hades.
-
- The problem is that if it was changed, the existing .gov domains would
- still have to work because that's what people are used to.
- Would you propose that existing domains would be listed twice, say
- foo.bar.nasa.gov also be listed as foo.bar.nasa.gov.us?
- I don't that much about DNS but wouldn't that be a waste.
- And if it wasn't listed the old way imagine the trouble.
- >
- >But just because it *won't* happen, doesn't mean it *shouldn't* happen.
- >
- >PS: Is there any discussion of the USA joining the rest of the world
- > by ditching British Imperial measures and going metric? At all??
-
- We were supposed to years ago. Actually I wish we would, I can't
- remember how many feet are in a mile. But people resist changing
- because they have been using the Imperial measures as confusing as they
- are and don't want to change and don't want to learn how to convert.
- Will it ever happen, who knows? But don't blame all of us Yanks some of
- us can see the benifits of the metric system.
- (If you want to discuss the metric system further send me Email).
-
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