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From: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Size of the Internet vs. UUCP net
Keywords: RFC-822 conformant?
Message-ID: <285@xdos.UUCP>
Date: 13 May 89 15:21:29 GMT
References: <1989Apr24.203137.5835@utzoo.uucp> <163@ncis.tis.llnl.gov> <552@aurora.AthabascaU.CA> <25459@amdcad.AMD.COM> <1016@mcmi.UUCP> <1046@ittg.UUCP> <3174@epimass.EPI.COM>
Reply-To: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt)
Organization: Hunter Systems, Mountain View CA (Silicon Valley)
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In article <3174@epimass.EPI.COM> jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) writes:
>Partially.  You're not fully conformant because pete@ittg.UUCP is not
>a "real" domain address.
>You can become fully legal several ways:

Since all of your options are unsatisfactory to many people, you can
assume that ".UUCP" is never going to go away, at least not via those
options.

All of them involved mandating connectivity, e.g. through uunet. Well,
that's too expensive a solution for a large fraction of the leaf nodes
(very small organizations, remember?) for too small of a payoff. "Hey,
we already get news, what's the big deal?"

If you want people to have "real" domain addresses, you need to have
a way of *cheaply* assigning them to leaf nodes without requiring a
change in their connectivity. When I say "cheap", I mean less than
a hundred bucks per year, preferably about $35. (Or is this already
possible?)
	Doug
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