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From: mark@cbosgd.att.com (Mark Horton)
Newsgroups: mod.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re:  HOSTS.TXT
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Date: Mon, 30-Jun-86 21:22:01 EDT
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>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,

It seems to me these are two examples of the same problem: a host
which is organizationally three layers down in the tree, but which
has responsibility for a higher level domain (Berkeley.EDU in the
first case, ROOT in the second.)  As such, I think the folks who run
the machine should decide where to put the primary name (and I understand
the NIC has chosen NIC.SRI.COM) with appropriate nicknames.  Thus, the
root (and also COM, EDU, and GOV) are in effect nicknames for the NIC.
Whether they choose to support them as explicit nicknames is again
up to them.

	Mark