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From: jordan@TITAN.ARC.NASA.GOV.UUCP
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Subject: Re:  HOSTS.TXT
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Date: Sun, 29-Jun-86 19:29:02 EDT
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I agree with Mark and Rick -- the non-domained aliases are just a sad
excuse for not doing the right thing. I'm not sure, however about the
restriction to two names -- some hosts have extra names for their plain
domain name (ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU -> Berkeley.EDU, etc.) ...

As for SRI-NIC.ARPA -> NIC, maybe it should be NIC.ORG, since the NIC
(the organisation, not the machine) may in the future have more than
one machine (maybe PCs or whatever) under their control. I agree,
however, that it should not be in SRI's namespace.

A question though ... my reading of RFC921 doesn't make it at all clear
about the MILNET's obligation in all of this. I understand that DDN-PMO
has yet to establish a schedule for the *implementation* part of the
Domain system, but what about the naming part of it? It seems to say
that the MILNET is on the same schedule for changing to "domained
names" (which could, by definition, include .ARPA) ...

If you change to .ARPA, you can certainly change to one of the other
top-level domains, and we can be through with .ARPA once and for all.
I was under the impression that the main problem was mailers, etc. that
didn't understand "addresses with dots" ... certainly .ARPA has a dot.

Is there in fact a requirement for the MILNET sites to join one of the
non-dot-arpa top-level domains? I thought I remembered reading
somewhere that part of the requirements for getting a domain is to
provide nameservice for it (whether or not *you* use the server for
address resolution I think is the crux of the "We don't care; we don't
have to -- We're MILNET" argument).

Why are new sites getting non-domained addresses?

Also, to echo Mark, what about these TACs?

/jordan