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From: piet@mcvax.UUCP (Piet Beertema)
Newsgroups: net.news.sa
Subject: Re: net.news.map path info
Message-ID: <5956@mcvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Sep-84 11:54:51 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  4 11:54:51 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 13-Sep-84 05:39:24 EDT
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Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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    >The following [local] hosts [at sun] are not unique:
	>icarus		btl, well known to mappers.
	>ariel		btl, well known to mappers.
	etc.
In other words: it's more than time to switch to domain addressing.
Creating unique sitenames in a worldwide network is getting harder
every day. And (re)routing would get a lot easier without every
backbone having to know paths to all sites. Even a crude splitting
into domains like usa, eur, aus etc. would do a lot of good already.
-- 
	Piet Beertema, CWI, Amsterdam
	...{decvax,philabs}!mcvax!piet