[12334] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: About the creation of new 3-letter domain(s)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruce Gingery)
Mon May 16 09:04:28 1994
Date: Sun, 15 May 1994 23:36:00 -0600 (MDT)
From: Bruce Gingery <lcbginge@antelope.wcc.edu>
To: Paul Robinson <PAUL@tdr.com>
Cc: hostmaster@internic.net, hostmaster@nic.ddn.mil,
Paul Mockapetris <PVM@isi.edu>, Mark Pullen <pullen@darpa.mil>,
John Andrews <ja@ess.cs.ucl.ac.uk>, paul@tdr.com,
Everyone Else Lurking on Com-Priv <com-priv@psi.com>,
Namedroppers <namedroppers@rs.internic.net>,
"Tansin A. Darcos & Company" <0005066432@mcimail.com>
In-Reply-To: <01.1994May14.23h36m37s.PAUL-0100000@TDR.COM>
Excellent suggestion. It is my understanding that the past limiting of
base level domains is primarily predicated on older sendmail.cf domain
validating during parsing. While the geographical domain naming is not a
bad idea, your point about people moving, such that their ".fi" address is
actually served in ".au", or perhaps more likely, a domain often moves - in
fact - between ".ca" and ".us"
At the same time, some provision for geographical locating would be a
good idea. "telnet <domainname> 13" before launching an ftp session with
a given domain is becoming less and less useful, as many systems turn OFF
what they consider to be superfluous services and therefore a compexing of
security measures.
Establishing a (for example) ".pvt" domain without geographical
reference merely expands the second problem. Of course FALSE
REPRESENTATION of a domain as in your examples, or mine in the first
paragraph above is perhaps worse, yet.
Bruce Gingery, Cheyenne WY
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