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From: david@elroy.UUCP
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Subject: Use of domains by uucp sites
Message-ID: <3063@elroy.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 30-Jan-87 13:48:32 EST
Article-I.D.: elroy.3063
Posted: Fri Jan 30 13:48:32 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 31-Jan-87 08:17:01 EST
Organization: Image Analysis Systems Grp, JPL
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Keywords: RFC

I have a question on the latest trend of domainizing of UUCP
hostnames.  I am all for using domains but it appears that
current trends of domain naming of UUCP hosts violate the RFC
that was written on domains.

My site is on the Arpa/Internet and uses a domain of .jpl.nasa.gov.
According to the RFC we are responsible of meeting all the requirements
of the domain above us, nasa.gov, which in turn is responsible to
its "parent", .gov.  In setting up our machines we contacted nasa.gov's
primary administrator and registered "jpl" as a subdomain and
designated a primary administrator for that subdomain.

I have been seeing a LARGE number of hosts with names like
foo.widget.com in widget corporation.  When I make a request to
the ".com" domain authority, SRI-NIC, they have NEVER heard of
it.  Doesn't this violate the RFC by failing to register with
the domain above it?  Shouldn't there be new top level domains
that dont confict with the DDN top level domains? With the old
".uucp" I would know to use pathalias to find the machine, now
I have to hunt around between the DDN nameservers and pathalias
to find out how to get somewhere.


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