david@elroy.UUCP (04/01/87)
In article <190@cbstr1.att.com>, Karl.Kleinpaste@cbstr1.att.com writes: > roy@phri.UUCP writes: > > > [7] An ARPANet address is frequently the same as a UUCP address > > > > That's all well and good, once the whole world converts to domains. > > Until then, it's a good idea to give your address on as many different > > networks as your machine is on. > > Hm. Well, all I can say is that I think one of the best ways to > propagate a standard is to put it to use. The sooner we all do > something domainified with mail addresses, the sooner the few > remaining sites that don't understand domains will have to convert. I agree with the use of domains and I encourage people to convert to domains. Now my pet peeve! IF YOU ARE GOING TO CONVERT TO A DOMAIN BASED NAME DO IT RIGHT!!! There is an increasing number of sites that are changing to use domain based names and the are not regsitering with the proper people!! If you read the RFC on domains you will see that in order to create a subdomain such as "widget.com" you are required to meet all the requirements of the parent domain ".com"! This means at least telling them who you are! The ".com" domain is governed by SRI-NIC.ARPA and you CANNOT become a subdomain of ".com" without meeting all the requirements of the ".com" domain. If you don't the whole domain based scheme won't work worth beans! -David Robinson david@jpl-elroy.arpa david@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov -- David Robinson elroy!david@csvax.caltech.edu ARPA david@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (new) seismo!cit-vax!elroy!david UUCP Disclaimer: No one listens to me anyway!
Karl.Kleinpaste@cbstr1.UUCP (04/01/87)
david@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov writes: > I agree with the use of domains and I encourage people to convert > to domains. Now my pet peeve! > IF YOU ARE GOING TO CONVERT TO A DOMAIN BASED NAME DO IT RIGHT!!! > There is an increasing number of sites that are changing to use > domain based names and the are not regsitering with the proper > people! True enough. But there's a couple thousand machines within AT&T known to Network Action Central (NAC, the group that tries to manage the UUCP connections amongst this morass). All those hosts are correctly known as SOME-HOST.ATT.COM. The NIC knows about .ATT.COM and the use of it is quite proper. Karl