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From: ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>)
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Subject: Re: Internet vs .edu
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Date: Sat, 11-Oct-86 23:56:54 EDT
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In article <2493@utai.UUCP>, lamy@utai.UUCP (Jean-Francois Lamy) writes:
> 
> Seems that there are a fair number of Internet sites that still don't
> grok .edu and .com addresses for sites that are not physically on the
> Internet (i.e. they don't query a name server or pass messages to
> somebody else).
> 
> Has some sort of a deadline been set?
No.  No deadline has been set.  As a matter of fact the methodology
for properly handling name server mail records for non-internet hosts
was rather recently redefined and still has at least one degenerate case
in it.

I'd expect expect this to be a rather hot topic at the Internet Engineering
Task Force meeting in Palo Alto next week.
-Ron