[45] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: US Domain -- County Delegations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Oberman)
Thu Jul 27 12:02:45 1995
To: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, oberman@nersc.gov
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 Jul 95 07:42:05 PDT."
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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 95 08:57:38 -0700
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@nersc.gov>
> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 07:42:05 -0700
> From: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
>
> I already know that U.S. companies put under states are going to feel
> overspecified. I can already hear the reasons why IBM.COM.NY.US is
> supposedly "wrong" since IBM is a nationwide, no, worldwide company.
> On the other hand they're incorporated in New York and the point isn't
> to have the name make sense, it's to keep the hierarchy from flattening.
To make matters far worse, a very disproportionate number of
corporations are "located" in Delaware for legal and tax reasons, even
if they only have a small office in that state. Whoever is responsible
for DE will have a very big job! And think of all the traffic that
will cross teh pond because people forget the ".US"!
I think Paul is right on the mark on this one.
R. Kevin Oberman
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
National Energy Research Supercomputer Center (NERSC)
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
EMAIL: koberman@llnl.gov Phone: +1 510 422-6955
