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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
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Posted: Thu Aug  2 02:34:00 1984
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Sender: ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist)
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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