Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site cbosgd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!mark From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) Newsgroups: net.mail 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> Organization: Bell Labs, Columbus Lines: 22 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