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From: haugj@pigs.UUCP (Joe Bob Willie)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to sign-up a host in the .US Domain.
Message-ID: <200@pigs.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jul 88 15:18:07 GMT
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Reply-To: haugj@pigs.UUCP (Joe Bob Willie)
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In article <3548@palo-alto.DEC.COM> vixie@palo-alto.DEC.COM (Paul Vixie) writes:
>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.

Has Postel elaborated on what he wants out of the naming scheme?  Bill Wisner
is getting .dallas.tx.us organized and I was wondering why it was not set up
as .dfw.tx.us since that is how the city distribution for netnews is.

Perhaps part of Postel's reasoning is to create an actual geographic area
oriented domain structure to facilitate less expensive mail routing.  If a
domain is allowed to cover two or more LATA's, the cost of traffic may be no
less than what it currently is for interstate calls.

- John.
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 jfh@rpp386.uucp	(The Beach Bum at The Big "D" Home for Wayward Hackers)
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