Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site hou3c.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!knutsen@SRI-UNIX.ARPA From: knutsen@SRI-UNIX.ARPA (Andrew Knutsen) Newsgroups: net.mail.headers Subject: Re: internetwork addressing questions Message-ID: <723@hou3c.UUCP> Date: Thu, 2-Aug-84 02:34:00 EDT Article-I.D.: hou3c.723 Posted: Thu Aug 2 02:34:00 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 3-Aug-84 23:56:50 EDT References: <1102@psuvax1.UUCP> Sender: ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist) Lines: 12 To: allegra!psuvax1!jdi@BERKELEY (John D. Irwin) Cc: Header-People@MIT-MC.ARPA In-Reply-To: Your message of 1 Aug 1984 08:57:24-EDT Thu, 19-Jul-84 10:06:03 EDT. <1102@psuvax1.UUCP> The basic problem is that ARPA (the US gov't) hasnt declared any "official" domains other than ARPA. An official domain implys the existence of a well-maintained nameserver service, and this does not exist for uucp, or bitnet for all I know. Thus on the arpanet, ARPA must be top level, and subdomains must be in the "local part". Kind of a silly situation, but the good side is that it encourges the formation of the nameservers. Apparently things are coming along on the uucp and csnet fronts. AK