[452] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Goverment-sponsorship and name servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (April Marine)
Tue Mar 26 13:09:14 1991
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1991 9:49:35 PST
From: April Marine <april@NISC.SRI.COM>
To: Stef@ics.uci.edu
Cc: April Marine <april@nisc.sri.com>, Martin Lee Schoffstall <schoff@psi.com>,
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 26 Mar 91 09:24:34 PST
This is a good point (re the fact that DNS names are separate from
servers). (And I was afraid I would forget some aspect of this thing
if I replied! :-)
In fact, the point is simply that the servers be accessible via the
Internet. Many companies pay UUNET or PSI to coordinate MX records
for them, thus "reserving" their domain. At this point, however,
there is no provision for reserving domain names in any other way
(i.e. it's either connected servers or no domain name). This
possibility is something that might be considered for the future,
depending on what the future holds.
thanks!
April
