Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!ai.toronto.edu!rayan From: rayan@ai.toronto.edu.UUCP Newsgroups: can.general Subject: Re: The Canadian Domain: Introduction to CA Message-ID: <1987Nov26.160644.10193@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> Date: Thu, 26-Nov-87 16:06:44 EST Article-I.D.: jarvis.1987Nov26.160644.10193 Posted: Thu Nov 26 16:06:44 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Nov-87 07:42:56 EST References: <1987Nov23.095020.13055@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <1152@looking.UUCP> <1987Nov25.131317.26029@sq.uucp> Distribution: can Organization: University of Toronto, AI group Lines: 20 In article <1165@looking.UUCP> brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes: # There's no rule that says we can't have # some aliases so that you're at TO.ON.Ca as well, is there? There are no such rules. The problem in this case is that there is no mechanism to do this kind of aliasing in a global fashion, or even within a single network. The only way I can think of to accomplish this, is if *all* mail goes through a gateway machine whose mailer can do the translation. Since this is not realistic, aliases for intermediate subdomains (between your organization and Ca) really cannot exist as far as most of the world is concerned. I think much of the reason for using the provincial abbreviations (incidentally, it appears Quebec will be QC), was that there was no good consistent scheme using unabbreviated names (or do people really want PrinceEdwardIsland, NorthWestTerritories, BritishColumbia, etc., like Ontario et al?). The same argument was the reason for not abbreviating municipality names (no consistent sensible way of doing it). rayan