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From: laubach@hpiag0.IAG.HP.COM (Mark Laubach)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Internet and Bitnet Directories?
Message-ID: <1810005@hpiag0.IAG.HP.COM>
Date: 23 Nov 89 01:13:46 GMT
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Organization: HP Information Architecture Group - Cupertino, CA
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| It is often suggested that sites on bitnet register domain-style names
| under a .BITNET domain, but the reply is always that the NIC will not
| accept such a top level domain.  Perhaps it would be appropriate to
| register all BITNET sites under the BITNET parent organization?  Thus,
| we might have DNS addresses such as "site.cren.org" and a CREN.ORG
| domain administered by the CSnet organization.  Or perhaps a CREN.NET
| or even CS.NET?

We haven't looked into creating a cren.net domain yet.  There is
already a cs.net domain.  We may be able to do something under a
domain and provide CNAMES to the official name.  I think the
NIC would prefer to see us register name under the appropriate subdomain 
under .com or .edu for the entity in question rather than bury it 
under a single domain.

| Alternatively, the CSnet folks could do with BITNET what they did with
| CSnet years ago and manage a bunch of 2nd-level domains, one for each
| BITNET site.

It makes a lot more sense for us to register each organization under its
own .edu or .com subdomain, to run these from a few servers on the
Internet (eg. sh.cs.net), and to provide MX records to the appropriate
INTERBIT gateway machines (e.g. cunyvm.cuny.edu).

Mark