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From: campbell@maynard.BSW.COM (Larry Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: What domain do private machines belong in?
Message-ID: <798@maynard.BSW.COM>
Date: Mon, 5-Jan-87 22:56:31 EST
Article-I.D.: maynard.798
Posted: Mon Jan  5 22:56:31 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 6-Jan-87 18:38:12 EST
References: <2847@ista.UUCP> <405@dhw68k.UUCP> <979@sigma.UUCP>
Reply-To: campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell)
Organization: The Boston Software Works, Inc.
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Summary: geographic domain names considered harmful

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...)
-- 
Larry Campbell                                The Boston Software Works, Inc.
Internet: campbell@maynard.uucp             120 Fulton Street, Boston MA 02109
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ARPA: campbell%maynard.uucp@harvisr.harvard.edu      MCI: LCAMPBELL