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From: lazear@GATEWAY.MITRE.ORG
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Subject: Re:  CS top-level domain and its impact on the UK?
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Date: 10 Jul 90 13:20:51 GMT
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It would seem that this is an example of where a translating,
application-level gateway is required:  to map between one
naming convention and another.  Sure, it's nice if you can do
it by inspection (user@host vs /c=uk/o=btc/pn=pjones/), but
when the forms are very close, you need to have more infrastructure
to make the break a clean one.  There are gateways between BITNET
and CSNET and MILNET, and the similarities in name formats are
sorted out there.  But the end user needs to aim the message at
the gateway...it doesn't get there by magic.  Perhaps it's time
to bite the bullet and admit that there needs to be a more formal
interface between the UK scheme and the rest of the Internet?
Or, as was suggested, perhaps the UK scheme needs to be dropped
in favor of "harmonization" of the domain name system.

	Walt Lazear