[135] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: US Domain -- County Delegations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Curtis Villamizar)
Tue Aug 1 14:55:14 1995
To: rrv@uiuc.edu (Ross Veach)
cc: Paul Traina <pst@cisco.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: curtis@ans.net
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 01 Aug 1995 11:57:30 CDT."
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Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 14:45:43 -0400
From: Curtis Villamizar <curtis@ans.net>
In message <v02120d07ac440d25dd31@[192.17.16.74]>, Ross Veach writes:
> 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.
If we go with this sort of idea at all, for compatibility with older
resolvers, we should keep it a simple mapping. No hashing.
Curtis
