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From: dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: The UUCP domain
Message-ID: <560@lakart.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jun 89 15:54:17 GMT
References: <1393@istop.ist.CO.UK>
Organization: Lakart Corporation, Newton, MA
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From article <1393@istop.ist.CO.UK>, by neil@ist.CO.UK (Neil Todd):
> One problem is that the uucp domain is a flat namespace, there can be
> exactly one ixi.uucp in the world.

This is not a problem in itself - .bitnet is a real live domain, and it's
as flat as a millpond.

No, the _REAL_ problem is that .UUCP is an anarchy: there is no central
authority. For example, look at the recent fulcrum uproar, and there are
two edsel's in .UUCP. To take things to their logical extreme, my home
machine is pallio.uucp (unique as far as I was able to check, and I looked
very carefully). However, there is nothing except my concience (and good
sense) to prevent me from calling it mcvax, or decvax, or uunet or anything
else. It is left as an excercise to evaluate the level of confusion and
trauma that would result :-)
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