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From: mark@clout.Jhereg.MN.ORG (Mark H. Colburn)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to sign-up a host in the .US Domain.
Message-ID: <308@clout.Jhereg.MN.ORG>
Date: 20 Jul 88 16:20:09 GMT
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Reply-To: mark@clout.Jhereg.MN.ORG (Mark H. Colburn)
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I have just recently set up a .us domain for the Chicago area.  The
name of the domain is .chi.il.us.  Note that the host for the domain
is in Streamwood, IL, about 30 miles from the Loop.  I think that Jon
Postel wanted to be able to group the domains by geographical area so
that they would be easier to maintain.  Note, however, if the
geographical area is too small, there are just as many problems as
bang paths :-(.  

My suggestion for the California area is to set up a domain, sf.ca.us.
This namespace could server as the domain for all of San Francisco and
the surrounding Bay Area.  In order to do this, you would need to form
a domain park so that you would have a centralized machine to handle
the namespace, but it has been done in Minnesota by Shane McCarron,
and in Chicago by me.

If you are interested in domain parks, you can contact either myself
or Shane (ahby@bungia.mn.org) for more details.  If there is enough
interested I will post.

-- 
Mark H. Colburn           mark@jhereg.mn.org, ..!chinet!jhereg!mark

        They didn't understand a different kind of smack was needed, 
           than the back of a hand, something was always needed.