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Subject: Re: Canadian UUCP Zone (was Re: Status of Canadian domain)
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Date: Mon, 24-Aug-87 09:10:40 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 24 09:10:40 1987
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In article <1262@van-bc.UUCP> sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne) writes:
>If the EAN/Netnorth people cannot agree to split up the .ca namespace in a
>co-operative fashion then the only suggestion I can make is to split it by
>network:
>
>	.uucp.ca
>	.cdn.ca
>	.netnorth.ca
>
>Personally I think that this is abhorrent, but if thats the only way we can
>structure the namespace then so be it.

This is not only abhorrent, it is in direct contradiction with the stated goals
of domains!  Where would you put toronto.edu (which is part of all 3,
in addition to CSNet)?   The same holds for park names if there is any
risk that a site would leave one such co-op for another, or if the co-op
failed.

The one advantage geographical domains have is that cities and provinces
don't move very often... Well chosen functional domains are likely to last
the expected 25 years before the next great shakedown (my guess).

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