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From: sl@van-bc.UUCP
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: Status of Canadian domain
Message-ID: <1257@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 22-Aug-87 19:27:04 EDT
Article-I.D.: van-bc.1257
Posted: Sat Aug 22 19:27:04 1987
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Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
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In article <54@ncc.UUCP> lyndon@ncc.UUCP (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes:
>In article <8708211151.AA16007@ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu>, lamy@ai.toronto.edu (Jean-Francois Lamy) writes:
 
>> 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.

>I think geographical "domains" are a contradiction in terms. A domain has
>to relate to an address, not a ROUTE. Fortunately, pathalias and the UUCP maps
>allow us to fudge things for now, but there is a MUCH LARGER problem to be

Hold on a bit. You're perhaps reading a bit more into domains than what they
were originally intended to do. For example if you review the opening
paragraphs of RFC920:

	"Domains are administrative entities."

	"There are no geographical, topological, or technological constraints on
	a domain."

	"Most of the requirements and limitations on domains are designed to
	ensure responsible administration."

Clearly the emphasis is totally on keeping the name explosion manageable. It
is far easier for NIC (for example, we can have our own CNIC when needed) to
manage only a couple of thousand 2nd level domains and let each of them
administer their own sub-domains. For example it lets NIC advoid having to
know about all of the sub-domains in .ATT.COM or .IBM.COM.

If the people responsible for administering a domain want to make the names
geographically based, then that's ok. If they want to go with functional
names, that's ok too. If they want to go with organizational names, well
fine. The basic premise is "responsible administration".


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