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From: mcb@styx.UUCP (Michael C. Berch)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: How to put UUCP hosts into world domain tree?
Message-ID: <12532@styx.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Sep-85 23:49:34 EDT
Article-I.D.: styx.12532
Posted: Mon Sep 16 23:49:34 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 20-Sep-85 02:18:11 EDT
References: <1469@cbosgd.UUCP>
Reply-To: mcb@styx.UUCP (Michael C. Berch)
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Organization: Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, Livermore, CA
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Summary: Let's go with the Internet...

In article <1469@cbosgd.UUCP> mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) writes:
> . . .   Unless someone
> has a better idea, I think we may be forced to avoid the name UUCP as
> a top level domain, and fit into the name space somewhere else.
> Possibilities include:
> 
> . . . 
> (3) fit into the ARPA organizational space, with names like cbosgd.ATT.COM
>     and ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU.  This might not be hard, given the facilities
>     of smail and pathalias, but we do not have official permission from
>     ARPA to do this, and they have not been moving quickly to
>     resolve the problem.  (Since they keep the registries for EDU,
>     COM, GOV, MIL, and ORG, we would have to register with them.)

This alternative looks like a clear winner to me.  Note, for
example, that the second name, ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU, already exists.
The idea of uniting the domain and name spaces of North America's two
most visible electronic mail internets (DDN and UUCP) is tremendously
attractive, even though it might mean giving up some measure of domain
identity to the people who will eventually administer the entire
domain name scheme for DOD.

Michael C. Berch
mcb@lll-tis-b.ARPA
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