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- From: mjo@iao.ford.com (Mike O'Connor)
- Newsgroups: mi.misc,mi.news
- Subject: Re: MI.ORG
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 11:59:20 GMT
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- References: <1joucsINNf5g@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> <scs.727730949@wotan.iti.org> <1993Jan24.193921.24436@rotag.mi.org>
- Reply-To: Mike O'Connor <mjo@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com>
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- I've been corresponding with Jon Postel at ISI regarding this
- discussion, trying to get some more information on their thoughts.
- This is where most of my information is coming from:
-
- In article <1993Jan24.193921.24436@rotag.mi.org> kevin@rotag.mi.org
- (Kevin Darcy) writes:
-
- :>I'd certianly have no objections -- and maybe a sudden influx of mi.us
- :>sites would make the ISI folks more willing to hand over local control.
- :But there are no guarantees, right?
-
- According to Mr. Postel, in email:
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- The US domain are now delegating portions of the US domain. The US
- domain structure is
-
- <local-name>.<locality>.<state-code>.US.
-
- We will delegate a locality. For example, we will delegate
-
- "Ann-Arbor.MI.US"
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- This was news to me.
-
- :>A quick grep/sort/uniq thru the mi maps shows 36 mi.us sites and 48
- :>mi.org sites.
- :Sounds like people have already voted for mi.org with their hosts.
- :
- :I've got yet another host here I'd be willing to register in mi.org, if
- :it's a matter of tipping the scales even further... :-)
-
- Heh... you're not the only one.
-
- ...Mike
-
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