dell@Apple.COM (Thomas E. Dell) (08/01/90)
> But it is much nicer to do it with incomplete local adresses. >Instead only two character top domains should be allowed (that is >remove edu, com etc.) and no two character subdomains. Forcing all EDU, COM, etc. sites to divide their domains at political boundaries is hardly a good idea. Several international corporations would have to split their existing domains, possibly moving international traffic out of an internal corporate network and onto a national backbone. Also if a host or net is physically (via distributed architecture) or logically (company wide addressing scheme) straddling one or more international borders, it may be difficult to decide in which ISO-style domain to locate the person, host, or net. There are a fair number of COM, ORG, etc. nets that are not located in the United States; the NIC seems happy to register them. However, sometimes this requires obtaining a dialup connection to the USA which some organizations cannot afford; out of general principles I would still encourage multinationals to register under a "3 character domain" rather than ISO-style. ...Tom dell@apple.com / Thomas E Dell