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Re: US Domain -- County Delegations

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Wed Jul 26 18:06:07 1995

Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 18:00:51 -0400
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@sprint.net>
To: mcd@24hour.abs.net, usdomreg@isi.edu
Cc: nanog@merit.edu

> We are planning to delegate every county name as a locality name in each 
> State.  For example, "Ventura.CA.US", "Dade.FL.US", "Riverside.CA.US".

Too many levels is _very_ bad, as people will stick to using
old three-letter domains.

How about limiting the scheme to <orgname>.<state>.us?

Or, even better, for major metropolitan areas like SF, LA, NYC,
CHI etc the name central city can be used instead of state.

That scheme worked reasonably well for .SU :)

--vadim

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