[42] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: US Domain -- County Delegations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (nordlund@databank.com)
Thu Jul 27 11:51:30 1995
From: nordlund@databank.com
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 95 11:47:13 cdt
To: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>, Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
Cc: usdomreg@isi.edu, nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: nordlund@databank.com
>On Wed, 26 Jul 1995, Paul A Vixie wrote:
>
>> >Or, even better, for major metropolitan areas like SF, LA, NYC,
>> >CHI etc the name central city can be used instead of state.
>>
>> I like this idea. (Note that VIXIE.SF.CA.US has moved many times since
its
>> creation, and though I've always been in the Bay Area I've not lived in
San
>> Francisco since 1988.)
>
>This would seem to indicate that geographical domains are a bad idea and
>that domain names should be based on some characteristic that is less
>likely to change over time.
>
>VIXIE.BIND.HACKER ?
>
>Michael Dillon Voice: +1-604-546-8022
>Memra Software Inc. Fax: +1-604-542-4130
>http://www.memra.com E-mail: michael@memra.com
>
How much do we want to use the .US domain? For heavy use, we need a style
for organizations that are beyond cities, countys or even states. I support
a style that will be organization.US or maybe organization.COM.US (of all
things).
Dave Nordlund Dir of Technical Svcs
Databank, Inc 913/842-6699
1473 Hwy 40 nordlund@databank.com
Lawrence, KS 66044 "Your Key to the Internet"
