[6829] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Domain names for ISP infrastructure links
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Tue Jan 7 19:36:49 1997
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 19:35:16 -0500
To: "John W. Stewart III" <jstewart@metro.isi.edu>
From: John Curran <jcurran@bbnplanet.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.net
At 17:25 1/7/97, John W. Stewart III wrote:
>conventions are fine
>
>and it's helpful to users and operators alike for names to
>contain a fair amount of information
>
>but "standardizing" with fixed-width fields, pop codes,
>next-hop router, etc. doesn't seem that productive when
>providers are gonna do what they want anyway.
No... we're going to mandate OID-style router names
for the world's Internet providers:
<isoc-tree>.<internet-infrastructure branch>.
<iso country code>.<city ordinal>.<provider #>.
<facility #>.<rack #>.<shelf #>.<router ordinal>
Great fun to watch (it could be happening this way
in the alternate universe next door.)
;-)
/John
