Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!clan!ptrubey From: ptrubey@clan.UUCP (Phil Trubey) Newsgroups: can.general Subject: Re: Status of Canadian domain Message-ID: <291@clan.UUCP> Date: Sat, 29-Aug-87 22:30:29 EDT Article-I.D.: clan.291 Posted: Sat Aug 29 22:30:29 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Aug-87 14:35:18 EDT References: <8708190102.AA05431@ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu> Reply-To: ptrubey@clan.UUCP (Phil Trubey) Distribution: can Organization: Systems Eng., Carleton Univ., Ottawa, Canada Lines: 45 Why *do* some people so vehemently want functional second level subdomains? I have yet to be involved in this debate, but I'll throw in my two cents worth anyways. Lacking arguments pro and con, I'll make some up and see where that leaves me... 1) If functional 2nd level subdomains were not used, the 2nd level name space would grow too large and become chaotic. If the idea is to use the same functional names as used in the US, (.EDU, .COM, .NET) then not much 'organization' is being bought. .NET will typically contain few organizations, thus spliting the name space into two sections. Hardly an improvement. What *is* the proposal for second level subdomains? 2) Other countries are using functional 2nd level subdomains. 3) ??? Personally I would favour the organizational 2nd level subdomain as it makes mail addresses a manageable size. If functional naming were used, a typical address here would look like, ptrubey@clan.systems.carleton.edu.ca kind of long winded. And for a really large organization that wants 4 levels for itself (like AT&T in the states), it starts to look silly ... bang paths were shorter. I realize that the objective is not to produce short mail addresses, but to impose a clean, rational structure to mail addressing. However, practical aspects should be thought of in addition to the theoretical. I'd be interested in seeing what other people thought... By the way, is the US going to continue using several top level domains, or has there been any thought of creating a .US top level domain? I didn't think so... Phil Trubey School of Computer Science, Carleton University CDNnet: ptrubey@systems.carleton.cdn Internet, ARPA: ptrubey%carleton.bitnet@wiscvm.wisc.edu BITNET: ptrubey@carleton.bitnet UUCP: ptrubey@clan.uucp ( ..!watmath!clan!ptrubey)