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From: forys@sigi.Colorado.EDU (Jeff Forys)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: determining domain type
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Date: Sun, 25-Oct-87 00:12:23 EST
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In article <1885@killer.UUCP> billw@killer.UUCP (Bill Wisner) writes:
> Foreign sites use the country abbreviation for the top-level domain,
> i.e. .UK for the United Kingdom.

Quite correct, given that you are looking at the address from the "domain
system" point of view (which, I'm sure you are).  However, all the world
is not the same!  If you step into the United Kingdom their top level
becomes "UK.".  The NRS decided to use names like "UK.AC.Ucl.Cs" (note the
reverse order).  While this makes for more work in gateways between the
two systems, the result is *almost* always transparent to the end user
(i.e. under our "domain system", you would still use "Cs.Ucl.AC.UK").

Just adding a little dirt to the clear water...  :-)
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Jeff Forys @ UC/Boulder Engineering Research Comp Cntr (303-492-4991)
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