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From: ntt@dciem.UUCP (Mark Brader)
Newsgroups: net.unix,net.unix-wizards,net.bugs.uucp
Subject: Re: Area-code as uucp domains-- better to use states.
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Date: Fri, 27-Jan-84 12:13:45 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 27 12:13:45 1984
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Good idea.  But area codes tend to be unique only within countries
(North America counts as one country here).  So there has to be
another convention for the overseas sites.  A logical one would be
the country name, truncated or abbreviated to 2-6 characters.
For instance, uk, france, nether.

But then if we're using geographic names in Europe, why not use them
in North America?  I refer to STATES and PROVINCES.  They are better
known than area codes and they have unique abbreviations of 2 letters.
(How legitimate the 2-letter abbreviations are in the case of Canadian
provinces is questionable, but there is an established set which does
not conflict with the state abbreviations.)

Mark Brader
Shall we say... {IL/ihnp4, NH/decvax, MA/linus, ...} !ON/utzoo!ON/dciem!ntt
Hmph, maybe a default is needed so that the null domain means a backbone site.