Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!lth.se!newsuser From: Dan@dna.lth.se (Dan Oscarsson) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains Subject: Re: CS top-level domain and its impact on the UK? Message-ID: <1990Jul30.095853.21359@lth.se> Date: 30 Jul 90 09:58:53 GMT References: <1990Jul23.065901.8741@ifi.uio.no> <1990Jul28.235750.20841@kth.se> <1990Jul29.103214.14864@robobar.co.uk> Sender: newsuser@lth.se (LTH network news server) Distribution: comp Organization: Computer Science, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden Lines: 43 In article enag@ifi.uio.no (Erik Naggum) writes: >The saga continues... > >The problem with this insipid reversed name style is that it is up to >the applications to do it right, and it wouldn't have been a problem >if you UK types could get sufficiently intelligent designers from >abroad to write your software. Of course, since you're backwards, and >your users won't exactly understand that all by themselves, they will >use Internet domain names for addressing purposes. So, you can choose >between a major operation to educate the users to understand that UK >is one way, the rest of the world is the other way, or a major oper- >ation to get this silly JANET convention killed and safely buried. >Nobody will mourn its passing. Somebody will! Why is janets convension backward???? I think the Internet one is backward!!! It feels more right to do it the Janet way. Everything that the USA does is not good, just look at what they have done with character sets. > >> The heuristics are similar to those you need for matching incomplete >> local addresses. After all, a hypothetical jerry@complex.math.foo.edu >> who wanted to mail freddy@gizmo.cs.foo.edu might quite reasonably say >> that "mail freddy@gizmo.cs" should work as he expects, and only if >> gizmo.cs.foo.edu doesn't exist does he expect the mailer to look in >> Czechoslovakia. > >The Internet decided to deprecate this practice about two years ago. Did they? But it is much nicer to do it with incomplete local adresses. Instead only two character top domains should be allowed (that is remove edu, com etc.) and no two character subdomains. Dan -- Dan Oscarsson Department of Computer Science Lund Institute of Technology e-mail: Dan@dna.lth.se Box 118 S-221 00 Lund, Sweden