[12548] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: About the creation of new 3-letter domain(s)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Manning)
Sat May 21 00:26:27 1994
From: bmanning@is.rice.edu (William Manning)
To: dcrocker@mordor.stanford.edu (Dave Crocker)
Date: Fri, 20 May 94 10:56:56 CDT
Cc: dan@ees1a0.engr.ccny.cuny.edu, bigz@rice.edu, namedroppers@rs.internic.net,
com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <aa0000d50902101100ae@[128.102.17.23]>; from "Dave Crocker" at May 18, 94 10:33 am
Thank you for pointing out a very interesting bit of fluff that has
surfaced before. As YR and PF have pointed out, provider-based
selection implies address lockin. There is a seperation between
assignment of transit IDs (addresses) and the naming of those IDs.
RIPE and the APNIC are excellent examples of using a different authority
for administering naming/routing than actual transit.
An additional bit of trivia or two. .COM is a problem. IN-ADDR.ARPA
is much larger.
It is possible to map more than one name to an address.
eg
192.136.150.1 in a home.hou.tx.us.
192.136.150.1 in a wcmgate.sesqui.net.
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Regards,
Bill Manning
