Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.mail Subject: Re: Area-code as uucp domains Message-ID: <3512@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Fri, 3-Feb-84 15:47:32 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.3512 Posted: Fri Feb 3 15:47:32 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 3-Feb-84 15:47:32 EST References: <426@psuvax.UUCP>, <758@ulysses.UUCP>, <3508@utzoo.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 15 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 {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry