[131] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: US Domain -- County Delegations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ross Veach)
Tue Aug 1 13:04:09 1995
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 11:57:30 -0500
To: Paul Traina <pst@cisco.com>
From: rrv@uiuc.edu (Ross Veach)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
At 2:39 AM 8/1/95, Paul Traina wrote:
>Just to be obnoxious, let me state the ugly obvious programatic mapping...
>use the first 2 or 3 letters in the 2nd layer domain name.
>
>cisco.com = cisco.ci.com
>nytimes.com = nytimes.ny.com
>real-routers.com = real-routers.re.com
>
>Since this is a purely implied and programatic mapping, the particularly
>-cute- thing we can do is automagicly map this crud so no user ever has
>to see the abomonation "cisco.ci.com".
Better yet, hash the 2nd layer domain name.