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From: brian@ucsd.Edu (Brian Kantor)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
Subject: Re: CS top-level domain and its impact on the UK?
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Date: 6 Aug 90 15:59:48 GMT
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Not to beat a dead horse, but if you take a JANET mailbox address like

	john-thomas@uk.ac.manchester.cs

and tack a .GB on the end of it, thus

	john-thomas@uk.ac.manchester.cs.gb

and you have a pair of nameservers for '.gb' that understand that
subdomains of '.gb' are JANET-compliant hostnames that have to be
treated according to coloured-book rules, then you have something that
the JANET/internet gateways can handle unambiguously, and that is
completely acceptable to the internet DNS - and won't be confused with
something that originates anywhere else, or that belongs elsewhere in
Europe.

The simple trick here is that the GB nameserver can just strip off the
 .GB and ask the JANET nameserver, which is presumably separate anyway.

Simple, straightforward, and elegant in its simplicity.  Therefore, it
will never happen.
	- Brian