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From: dan@maccs.McMaster.CA (Dan Trottier)
Newsgroups: can.general,ont.uucp
Subject: Re: why both d.can.? and d.can.??.?
Message-ID: <1385@maccs.McMaster.CA>
Date: 25 Aug 88 17:21:14 GMT
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References: <316@telly.UUCP>
Reply-To: dan@maccs.UUCP (Dan Trottier)
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Organization: McMaster U., Hamilton, Ont., Can.
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In article <316@telly.UUCP> evan@telly.UUCP (Evan Leibovitch) writes:
>Why does there exist a separate d.can.1 map file, even though there are
>d.can.??.1 files for each province (which has subdomains)?

I'm not absolutely sure about this but there are sites that are not
registered under the provincial domains. For example the universities
are listed as second level domains (also some large companies). Other
smaller sites are usually fourth level domains beneath .city.prov.ca.
>
>Is there a special reason to keep the members of the .CA domain separate
>from the files listing Canadian members of .EDU, .COM, .ORG, etc.? Certainly
>one wants to keep a distinction between the d.* and u.* files, but what
>logical reason is there to keep .CA in a different file?

I'm not sure what the problem is here but the .CA domain is not the same
as the .COM, .EDU, .ORG, ... domains. These domains are part of the ARPA
net and CA is not. I expect the new .US domain will have a file similar
to the d.can.*.[123] files. 
>
>I understand that .CA is maintained in the Great White North (utai, to be
>precise), while the others are registered thorugh stargate (I think). Still,
>Canadians can send UUCP map entries to rutgers OR utai and both make it into
>the u.can.??.? map files. Is this political? :-)

No actually you should never send your map entries to Stargate! I believe
that utai!path is the maintainer of the Canadian maps and is solely 
responsible (along with rutger and others??) for map distribution.

Dan Trottier
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