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- From: bryan@notorious.rs.itd.umich.edu (Bryan Beecher)
- Newsgroups: mi.misc,mi.news
- Subject: Re: MI.ORG
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 18:35:35 GMT
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- Mike O'Connor writes:
-
- > Aigh!! I like mi.org, and its relative flexibility. I can relocate
- > my site within Michigan and not feel compelled to change my name
- > 'cause I happen to enter a different city. The addressing is
- > certainly less awkward.
-
- Is this really an issue, though? How often do most people move? Or, if it
- is the case where a host moves back-and-forth between two cities, for instance,
- one could just have two MI.US entries. Or is this particular example one
- where the computer in question is highly mobile? If so, I'd argue that it
- still belongs in MI.US, but perhaps in some sort of domain along the lines
- of <host>.MOBILE.MI.US.
-
- > Ahhh... the three high schools that I see in your DNS seem to be
- > under k12.mi.us, rather than some-city.mi.us. How do the people who
- > run .ca feel about a k13.{province}.ca for their high schools?
-
- Right. The naming scheme is supposed to be <school>.<district>.K12.MI.US.
- Right now the ones in Michigan don't have the <district> part, but that
- ought to change soon.
-
- > I am not in favor of it. Of course, I realize that you're doing all
- > the work involved -- for our information, how much work IS involved?
-
- Not a whole lot. I have to add the name to the DNS, and Wes has to add the
- name to a list on destroyer.rs.itd.umich.edu in the cases where we provide
- the MX host.
-
- I just don't want to see us behind-the-times using something like MI.ORG
- when the rest of the country is (slowly) moving towards its respective parts
- of the US domain.
- --
- Bryan Beecher, U-M Information Technology Division (+1 313 747 4050)
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