[12339] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: About the creation of new 3-letter domain(s)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ds@ganymede.com)
Mon May 16 12:12:22 1994
Date: Mon, 16 May 94 10:29:50 EDT
From: ds@ganymede.com
Reply-To: ds@ganymede.com
To: com-priv@psi.com
Bruce Gingery wrote:
> 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"
I add:
Where did the idea for geographical domains come from in the
first place? Is there a compelling technical rationale for
it or is (was) it just a sop to OSI-minded bureaucrats? It
seems to me that geography is becoming less and less
relevant in the electronic medium...
David Scott
Communications Ganymede Inc.
ds@Ganymede.Com
resolutely non-geographical in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
