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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Area-code as uucp domains
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Date: Fri, 3-Feb-84 15:47:32 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb  3 15:47:32 1984
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The problem with using major site names as domain names is -- as was
pointed out in Washington -- that if a major site leaves the net, we're
screwed.  It is not at all inconceivable, for example, that DEC might
someday undergo a major policy change and decvax would cease to be a
network hub.  You know and I know that if domain names equal major-site
names, this assumption will end up imbedded in 2**22 programs.  For this
reason, domain names *must* *not* be coupled to specific site names.

Apart from the issue of naming, the approach decided on in Washington
(setting up domains on an ad-hoc basis, which will probably be vaguely
geographical except for organizational cases like AT&T) actually will
probably give about the same results.
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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