Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!apple!dell From: dell@Apple.COM (Thomas E. Dell) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains Subject: ISO style domains Message-ID: <43506@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 1 Aug 90 08:40:22 GMT References: <1990Jul23.065901.8741@ifi.uio.no> <1990Jul28.235750.20841@kth.se> <1990Jul29.103214.14864@robobar.co.uk> <1990Jul30.095853.21359@lth.se> Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 24 > 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. Forcing all EDU, COM, etc. sites to divide their domains at political boundaries is hardly a good idea. Several international corporations would have to split their existing domains, possibly moving international traffic out of an internal corporate network and onto a national backbone. Also if a host or net is physically (via distributed architecture) or logically (company wide addressing scheme) straddling one or more international borders, it may be difficult to decide in which ISO-style domain to locate the person, host, or net. There are a fair number of COM, ORG, etc. nets that are not located in the United States; the NIC seems happy to register them. However, sometimes this requires obtaining a dialup connection to the USA which some organizations cannot afford; out of general principles I would still encourage multinationals to register under a "3 character domain" rather than ISO-style. ...Tom dell@apple.com / Thomas E Dell