Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!DIKU.DK!thorinn From: thorinn@DIKU.DK (Lars Henrik Mathiesen) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains Subject: CS top-level domain and its impact on the UK? Message-ID: <9007222034.AA07935@rimfaxe.diku.dk> Date: 22 Jul 90 20:34:20 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: inet Organization: The Internet Lines: 27 Piercarlo Grandi writes: The fact that in the Internet the top level domain country code is GB for the United Kingdom and CS for Czechoslovakia has no relevance whatever for Janet and PSS, ... There are two points that I have been waiting for someone to raise; both concern the gatewaying between Janet and the Internet, where the facts above do have relevance. 1) Why are Janet addresses converted into the DNS toplevel domain uk, when it probably should be gb according to the discussion here? 2) Do the gateways accept ``wrong-format'' addresses from either side --- that is, stuff like pcg%uk.ac.aber.cs@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk coming from the Internet, or someone@uprague.cs from the Janet? If not, why worry about cs as a country code? As a point of interest: How does mail to (and from) random countries navigate the Janet? Do all the corresponding top-level names exist in Janet's naming scheme, do all the mailers have hacks to send the stuff, or do the gateways encapsulate the offending addresses with something like the %-hack? -- Lars Mathiesen, DIKU, U of Copenhagen, Denmark [uunet!]mcsun!diku!thorinn Institute of Datalogy -- we're scientists, not engineers. thorinn@diku.dk