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Subject: Re: What domain do private machines belong in?
Message-ID: <1987Jan5.151408.24982@utcs.uucp>
Date: Mon, 5-Jan-87 15:14:08 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan  5 15:14:08 1987
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In article <16744@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> fair@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Erik E. Fair) writes:
>How many of you out there have ever moved? 
>After getting your stuff safely from A to B, what's the biggest hassle?
>Could it be changing the mailing address that every one of your
>correspondents has on file for you?
>The neat thing about a non-geographical domain name system is that your
>name does not change if you move. And people move all the time.

I don't know but it seems to me that the vast majority of systems on the net
are either corporations or universities which have very little prospect of
moving anywhere. (University of Toronto anyways has no plans on moving soon)

What about if the few people who travel around be put in yet another domain
( .travel or .moving ???)

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.


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