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...