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From: rayan@ai.toronto.edu.UUCP
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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
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Posted: Thu Nov 26 16:06:44 1987
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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