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From: pjg@urth.acsu.buffalo.edu (Paul Graham)
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Subject: Re: Politics of domain naming sytles (unc.edu)
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Date: 7 Jul 90 04:22:33 GMT
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zben@UMD5.UMD.EDU (Ben Cranston) writes:

|We won't even talk about eng.umd.edu (our "Engineering" subdomain) or our
|cs.umd.edu (Computer Science Department) subdomain.  My personal hope is
|that once the patina fades and the magnitude of the continuing effort to
|MAINTAIN these things becomes institutionally evident that domains will
|re-devolve back to organizations geared to do first class management.

bzzzzt.  the dns is distributed.  this means that if your hostmaster is
lax you punish yourself.  if the parent domain hostmaster is a lout you
get to take care of yourself.  or even less maliciously if the parent
hostmaster is simply overworked you have some control over your
namespace.

it's been my experience that it's most often those at the top that feel
the need to exert control (so often in the name of "first class
management").