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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
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Subject: Re: Recent changes in uucp mail routing addresses to ARPA gateways
Message-ID: <937@cbosgd.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 10-Mar-85 12:17:29 EST
Article-I.D.: cbosgd.937
Posted: Sun Mar 10 12:17:29 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 11-Mar-85 04:43:53 EST
References: <190@peora.UUCP> <635@plus5.UUCP>
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In article <635@plus5.UUCP> hokey@plus5.UUCP (Hokey) writes:
>To answer jer@peora, your site in Florida would be in a different domain
>from your home office (in New Jersey) and your main mail-delivery site in
>Santa Clara.  Sales offices would also reside in different geographic
>domains.  This in no way impinges on how you choose to route mail from
>within PE.  It does, however, imply that mail "outside" would not tend
>to travel to the nearest PE site, but through other sites.  If there were
>a PE subdomain, however, it would tend to give PE the responsibility for
>maintaining its map info, as well as tend to make PE sites bear the costs
>for mail to (and, perhaps from) PE sites.

Not necessarily true.  While the current plan is to divide UUCP into
subdomains that are mostly geographically based, there are two other
proposals being considered.  One would abolish the .UUCP domain and
instead have UUCP sites join the EDU, COR, PUB, and GOV domains.  The
other would keep the UUCP domain but subdivide according to the same
rules that the COR et all domains subdivide, possibly by technical
specialty.  There are no plans to allow every startup company to have
their own 2nd level domain, because that would create an unmanageably
large number of 2nd level domains.

	Mark Horton