[6833] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Domain names for ISP infrastructure links
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wayne Bouchard)
Wed Jan 8 01:43:41 1997
From: Wayne Bouchard <web@typo.org>
To: pjnesser@martigny.ai.mit.edu (Philip J. Nesser II)
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 23:41:58 -0700 (MST)
Cc: dorian@cic.net, nanog@merit.net
In-Reply-To: <199701072202.AA047364530@martigny.ai.mit.edu> from "Philip J. Nesser II" at Jan 7, 97 05:02:09 pm
> > We use the following scheme.
> >
> > <routername> - <interface designation> <slot number> - <card slot number>
> > [<port number> [s <sub-interface number>].<pop>.cic.net.
> >
> > where interface designation is [fddi|hssi|ser|ether|fastether|atm|token|pos]
> > i.e.
> >
> > um1-fastether3-0-0s1.ann-arbor.cic.net
>
>
> Could we agree on a fixed width interface designation? fe instead of
> fastether? tk instead of token? etc..
I agree.. Two letters seems quite sufficient for the time being though
whose to say it will be in the future. It also tends to fix the size
of the hostname.
