Nyberg@USC-ISIF.ARPA (Karl Nyberg) (06/25/86)
[Forwarded from the ISI staff.] The Domain Name System has been developed to improve the maintenance and access of host name data. It is now ready for implementation, and policies have been adopted for converting all ARPA hosts to this system. These policies require that the general nature of an organization which supports a host be reflected in the host's name, i.e., Educational (EDU), Commercial (COM), or Military (MIL). ISI is classified as Educational and will thus be in the EDU domain. Note that the policies also require that the ARPA domain be phased out. The official ISI host names will be changed on Sunday, June 29th. The new name for this host will be ADA20.ISI.EDU. The old official name, USC-ISIF.ARPA, will continue to be a nickname; however, old nicknames such as USC-ISIF, ISIF, ADA-20 and ADA20 will be phased out over the next few months. Please begin notifying users who send you mail using these old nicknames that they should begin using the new official name to avoid mail delivery failures after the nicknames are invalid. In addition, it is important that all mailing list files be modified to use the new official names (i.e., user@ADA20.ISI.EDU). ------------------------------------------------------------ What this means to users of info-ada is that they should start addressing their mail (starting next monday) to info-ada@ada20.isi.edu. If your mailer doesn't support domains, shame on your system administrator (actually, you should be able to use the .ARPA domain for a few months still, but should change over as soon as possible). Questions, problems, comments, etc, to info-ada-request. -- Karl -- -------