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From: vixie@palo-alto.DEC.COM (Paul Vixie)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to sign-up a host in the .US Domain.
Message-ID: <3548@palo-alto.DEC.COM>
Date: 22 Jul 88 18:42:40 GMT
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In <308@clout.Jhereg.MN.ORG> mark@clout.Jhereg.MN.ORG (Mark H. Colburn) writes:
# 
# 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.

I should have thought of that.  I wanted .ba.ca.us and Postel said (implicitly)
"no".  He would probably not object to .sf.ca.us and if I move from suburb to
suburb without changing the name, no problem.  I'd need to get other BA domains
to use .sf.ca.us and get Geoff to move from .mpk.ca.us to .sf.ca.us, but I
think it will work.  Postel seems to want the third-level name to be a city
rather than the name of an area, so let's choose the name of the largest city
around.

Is this idea acceptable to other BA sites?

# 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.

I don't see why.  I mean, yes, it would be convenient to have a machine whose
name or cname was sf.ca.us which would route things to xyzzy.sf.ca.us, but in
fact if there is no such machine, xyzzy.sf.ca.us need only be registered with
the NIC (as all .US domains need to be) and with the UUCP Project (which is
free) in order that they receive their mail.

The only reason for an SF.CA.US machine if there are XYZZY.SF.CA.US machines
unknown to the NIC and/or unknown to the UUCP Project.  Handy but hardly nec'y.

Note that I have a Symmetric at home that I will gladly register as SF.CA.US
if Postel will allow it, and anyone who's a local call to San Francisco or
who will poll for their mail is welcome to get their mail through it.  I would
need to make sure that UUNET didn't send your mail through my machine as this
could get expensive and I don't want to be in the business of recharging my
connect time.  Perhaps Geoff would like to be in this business?  :-), half.

Note: I'm not speaking as a DEC employee here, all opinions are my own.
-- 
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