[54] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: US Domain -- County Delegations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Herbert)
Thu Jul 27 21:21:39 1995
To: nanog@merit.edu
Cc: gherbert@crl.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 Jul 1995 09:17:24 PDT."
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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 15:14:56 -0700
From: George Herbert <gherbert@crl.com>
One thing to keep in mind is that not all of .com is broken;
major country and world wide companies should sensibly have
a short address, we just need an adaptive mechanism to allow
more local companies to come along without losing all usability
within the existing .com structure...
I wouldn't have bothered to bring this up, but someone mentioned
using an intermediate hash on *all* .com's (ibm.49.com), which is a
waste of time. Every extra level of address hurts a bit, and it makes
sense that "really big" companies should have simple .com addresses.
We don't have to retrofit the new mechanism to everyone for consistency's
sake.
george william herbert gherbert@crl.com
KD6WUQ Unix / Internet Consultant
http://www.crl.com/~gherbert
