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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: <277@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 10-Jan-87 03:52:26 EST
Article-I.D.: van-bc.277
Posted: Sat Jan 10 03:52:26 1987
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Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Organization: Public Access Network, Vancouver, BC.
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In article <798@maynard.BSW.COM> campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell) writes:
>In article <1987Jan5.151408.24982@utcs.uucp> scott@utcs.UUCP (Scott Campbell) writes:
>>
>>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 whole POINT of domainising the UUCP world is to remove routing
>information from the user's view.  I am "campbell@maynard.BSW.COM",
>and if I move my machine to the West Coast, I would still be
>"campbell@maynard.BSW.COM".  The pathalias database would change, and
>perhaps an ARPANET name server would have to be notified, but USERS
>would still be able to type "campbell@maynard.BSW.COM".
>
>For this reason, I think geographic domains are a bad idea.  Domains
>should be administrative entities, not geographic ones (silly European
>political prejudices notwithstanding...)

How about if you move from New York to Vancouver, or better yet Honk Kong
or Paris. Are you still going to expect mail at campbell@maynard.BSW.COM?

Geographic domains do have some good points. At some point it gets very 
expensive to access your name server and you wish to set a domain that is
cheaper for you to access.

Of course this really means that you will set up domains around the cost
of your communications channels. For example in Canada using Datapac it
is far cheaper for me to communicate with Toronto (4000 miles away) than
Prince George (600 miles). 

Another interesting point is that is cheaper using direct distance dialing
to call virtually anywhere in the continental US than in Canada outside
of BC. So if most of my communications are via uucp on long distance I don't
even want to think of having a separate domain for Canada.

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