Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!UCBARPA.BERKELEY.EDU!fair From: fair@UCBARPA.BERKELEY.EDU (Erik E. Fair) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: What domain do private machines belong in? Message-ID: <8701070231.AA04933@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Tue, 6-Jan-87 21:31:30 EST Article-I.D.: ucbarpa.8701070231.AA04933 Posted: Tue Jan 6 21:31:30 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 7-Jan-87 00:58:05 EST References: <236@tropix.UUCP> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 23 In an ideal world, I should have one name with which people can send me mail, call me on the phone, and so on. Never changing, despite me moving my home, or changing jobs, or traveling on vacation. I could probably use my given name, since, as far as I know, there is only one other "Erik Fair" and he writes a column for Hang Gliding magazine in Los Angeles... Sadly, this ideal world does not as yet exist; not only do I have to have a unique login name, I have to attach that to a unique host name, and the two names as a pair as used to get my attention. Now, if I buy a computer (don't own one yet), why should its name change if I leave the state of California? Or the USA? Provided I can get you all to agree that geographic domains are a bad idea, the ideal world described in the previous paragraph will be closer to reality. Another thought, for those of you who are thinking of being part of the registration authority, consider this: the registration authority, under the geographic domain scheme, would have to keep track of the shifting morass of people and corporate entities that we know as the network. This compounds the existing problem, which is merely one of keeping track of routing. Erik E. Fair ucbvax!fair fair@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu