Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site peora.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!petsd!peora!jer From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) Newsgroups: net.mail Subject: Re: How to put UUCP hosts into world domain tree? Message-ID: <1624@peora.UUCP> Date: Thu, 12-Sep-85 08:54:18 EDT Article-I.D.: peora.1624 Posted: Thu Sep 12 08:54:18 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 13-Sep-85 04:23:19 EDT References: <1469@cbosgd.UUCP> Organization: Perkin-Elmer SDC, Orlando, Fl. Lines: 45 Well, for what it's worth, here's my opinion: (1) renaming UUCP ... I think this is best. You have to bear in mind that other mailers out there exist that use the domain name UUCP in the same way we (some of us) use the domain names .COM, .GOV, etc. I.e., it says "forward it to our UUCP gateway, who will figure out how to get it there". CSnet did this back when I was a CSnet user, for example. The name UUCP doesn't mean much to us since we are within the domain, but outside it has more significance. Maybe something like UUMAIL would be good; it's always been theoretically bothersome to me that UUCP transports both the mail and the news, but the domain denotes the mail. (2) do nothing. ... No, this wouldn't work because then when someone outside gets a message, if I understand you correctly, it would end up saying From: jer@jerpc.PE and they would have no idea what .PE meant: was it on CSnet? Bitnet? Mailnet? PE's internal network? or what? (3) fit into the ARPA organizational space, with names like cbosgd.ATT.COM I think this would be worst of all, since it brings on the problems inherent in insisting on the "domains are not routes" approach. I.e., if we fit into the ARPA organizational space, it becomes hard in practice to do the mail routing from the less privileged mail networks (those that don't have access to the registry information). Presently they can blindly forward the mail with .UUCP on the end to a site with pathalias, and let it resolve it. If it says ATT.COM, they have to keep up with what the UUCP subdomains of COM are, in some sense, in order to decide how to deliver it. (4) fit into the MHS (X.400) name space, or some reasonable mapping of it. The only problem with this is it's so hard to find out what X.400 is... could you summarize, possibly, how X.400 works? -- Shyy-Anzr: J. Eric Roskos UUCP: Ofc: ..!{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!vax135!petsd!peora!jer Home: ..!{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!vax135!petsd!peora!jerpc!jer US Mail: MS 795; Perkin-Elmer SDC; 2486 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, FL 32809-7642