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From: brian@ucsd.Edu (Brian Kantor)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: When to reverse domain addresses?
Message-ID: <23165@ucsd.Edu>
Date: 18 Nov 90 19:54:10 GMT
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I have this neurotic compulsion to keep beating on a dead horse:

If the people running the UK e-mail and news gateways were to obtain
the top-level internet domain
	.GB
and simply encapsulate their internal hostnames such as
	uk.ac.ucl.cs
within that domain when the mail crossed the gateway, they'd not only
solve the ordering problem, but also bring their domain in conformance
with the ISO country codes.

Thus
	jon@uk.ac.ucl.cs
inside the UK would cross the mail gateway and appear everywhere else in
the world as
	jon@uk.ac.ucl.cs.gb
and when it was replied to, the mail would simply to those mail gateways
MX'd for *.gb, and they'd strip off the .gb, and there you have it.

Is this doomed to failure because it's too simple and easy?

	Brian Kantor
		UCSD Network Operations
		brian@ucsd.edu	BRIAN@UCSD ucsd!brian