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From: mjl@tropix.UUCP (Mike Lutz)
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Subject: Re: What domain do private machines belong in?
Message-ID: <236@tropix.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 6-Jan-87 13:02:13 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan  6 13:02:13 1987
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Reply-To: mjl@tropix.UUCP (Mike Lutz)
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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.

How many of you have ever taken a new job? (How many of you have ever
had a job :-))?

After finding the johns in the new building, what's the biggest hassle?

Could it be telling all your correspondents how to get in touch with
you (by phone or mail)?

This is not to disparage the domain concept, just to point out that
changing one's address is not all that uncommon even when geography
is ignored.  The only way I can think to avoid this is to have your
original home domain forward the mail, possibly telling your correspondents
when it does so, but this would work every bit as well with geographic
domains, no?

And from what I've been seeing, our European and Asian friends are
using geographical domains, at least to the country level.  The
perverse British, of course, reverse the domain components (the
E-mail equivalent of driving on the left side of the road? :-)).

Until we finally sign up with the Big Name Server In The Sky, most of
us will be moving around and changing associations, and domains can
only partially deal with this.

Mike Lutz
seismo!rochester!tropix!mjl