From: utzoo!decvax!microsof!uw-beave!cornell!vax135!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!knutsen Newsgroups: net.mail Title: Re: domain status report - (nf) Article-I.D.: sri-unix.5278 Posted: Wed Mar 9 06:50:15 1983 Received: Sun Mar 13 09:51:22 1983 #R:cbosgd:-282800:sri-unix:11900001:000:717 sri-unix!knutsen Nov 30 00:22:00 1982 There is one way that (as far as I know) the domain-address has quite a bit to do with the transport mechanism: for each domain, there is supposed to be a name-to-route table somewhere. The existence of such a table requires some sort of organization within the domain. Thus I believe a strict geographical scheme wouldnt work very well. It also seems to me that the choice of a "top-level" domain is not really neccesary. If every address has ".universe" tacked on the end, its just a waste of bandwidth; just as long as there are a reasonable number of high-level domains, say 10 or so, so everybody can keep track of them. Besides, due to the "multi-homing" problem, there arent really any absolutes anyway...