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From: lamy@utegc.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Status of Canadian domain
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Date: Fri, 21-Aug-87 07:51:28 EDT
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Rayan's fears about namespace explosion are especially important wrt to
UUCP: thanks to Stuart I can now make my Mac into a UUCP node -- and
I would should I leave the academic environment.  Small Unix systems and
MS-DOS systems already had that capability.

Given the nature of Canada, and the structure of the phone rates, it is
unlikely that a kitchen site would do much long-distance work, especially
when the bigger machines may speak UUCP over X.25 or be part of the Canadian
Internet.  So we are likely to have geographical clusters, at least in the
UUCP clique.

In other words, I think geographical sub-domains should be registered as soon
as possible to host all the smaller machines.  One per postal code is a bit
much.  Cities might be nice, but provinces look about right for the moment.


the 1995 version?: Jean-Francois@jfl-ml.M4K1E9.on.can

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Jean-Francois Lamy                      lamy@ai.toronto.edu (CSnet,UUCP,Bitnet)
AI Group, Dept of Computer Science      lamy@ai.toronto.cdn (EAN X.400)
University of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4   {seismo,watmath}!ai.toronto.edu!lamy
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