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From: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: What domain do private machines belong in?
Message-ID: <279@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 10-Jan-87 04:22:49 EST
Article-I.D.: van-bc.279
Posted: Sat Jan 10 04:22:49 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 11-Jan-87 07:44:04 EST
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Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Organization: Public Access Network, Vancouver, BC.
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>
>Besides if you pick up your machine and move from New York to Minnesota all
>the routing to your machine will have to be changed and likely you would need
>to come under a new subdomain depending on who you connect to (Its likely
>that you will have different links). The geographical method is best although
>if it is a truly non-stationary machine then there might be problems which
>could be solved by the special non-stationary domain.
>

Actually the whole idea behind domains is that they are independant of the
routing. You participate in a domain according to your affiliations, not
your connections. Thus .gov for goverment, .edu for educational, .com for
companies etc.

If you move you and do not change your affiliations then your address will
remain the same - which is the reason people like the concept. If you do not
"move" but change affiliations then your address will change.

Note it is inherently possible for YOU to be a member of more than one domain.
For example I exist as:

	sl@van-bc.uucp		(perhaps to become sl@van-bc.priv)
	slyn@vm.sydney.cdn

In this case because I maintain to addresses on the net, one for work related
correspondence, and one personal correspondence.


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Stuart Lynne	ihnp4!alberta!ubc-vi!van-bc!sl 	      Vancouver,BC,604-937-7532
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