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Re: US Domain -- County Delegations

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@ISI.EDU)
Tue Aug 1 14:55:00 1995

From: bmanning@ISI.EDU
To: pst@cisco.com (Paul Traina)
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 11:43:57 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: paul@vix.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199508011737.KAA11107@puli.cisco.com> from "Paul Traina" at Aug 1, 95 10:37:23 am

> 
> But there are two orthoganal problems here, and they should be treated
> separately.  I know you understand this,  but that doesn't seem to be
> the consensus of the group.
> 	(a) root DNS overloading (.com is big)
> 	(b) all the good names are taken
> 
> As long as we can get people to understand there are two different problems
> here, we have a hope in hell of solving one or both.  If people continue
> to lump them together, we are doomed.
> 

And I thought that most people understood that there were two problems.
I think there have been a number of interesting proposals to deal with 
the first.  I tend to agree that the second is not, per se. a technical
problem.

--bill

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