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Subject: Re: CS top-level domain and its impact on the UK?
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Date: 10 Jul 90 06:11:39 GMT
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> Is this the straw that is going to break the back of the UK's domain
> name ordering, and force them to switch to "bottom-level-first" now,
> rather than try to "stick it out" until X.400 takes over the world?
* Absolutely NOTHING stands ANY chance at all of changing the "official" UK
* order.
* Their statement is that there is no big/little endian problem.
* All addresses is the UK are in UK order, and all gateways simply flip
* addresses on the way through.

* What we (the UK) really need is a way of dumping the DNS (to which 99.9% of
* us do not have access, and the 0.1% which does has an aversion to using)
* so that we could at least know all second level domains.

* That way cs.ucla.edu would get a two domain match, whereas edu.ucla.cs would
* only get one.

* [ Here's hoping my mail doesn't go via Chile !
*   [ My "short form" address is uk.ac.cam.cl ]
* ]