[9494] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: server redirects by client domain
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Darren New)
Wed Dec 20 17:44:14 1995
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 17:34:44 +0000
From: Darren New <dnew@sgf.fv.com>
To: Brian Behlendorf <brian@organic.com>
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.91.951220115502.22559k-100000@fully.organic.com>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
> Because the country code is optional (sites could register .com, .org,
> .net, etc) or they could simply refuse reverse-DNS service altogether, it
> would be a bad idea to base any legal or political decisions on it.
Well, you could certainly refuse to give export-controlled encryption
code to folks who don't put in their DNS where they are and such. The
fact that it's not ubiquitous doesn't mean it's useless.
> Sure, if I found a user accessing my site from *.sa (Saudi Arabia) I
> might not want to let them access my alt.sex.stories archive, but would I
> know whether to let in 196.1.3.1? Howbout saudi-oil.com?
No, you wouldn't know. In which case, you're in exactly the same
situation you're in now. :-) --Darren
