|
North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: US Domain -- County Delegations
Michael Dillon writes:- > This would seem to indicate that geographical domains are a bad idea and > that domain names should be based on some characteristic that is less > likely to change over time. The issue is surely one of who is prepared to do the work, and not one of routing or co-location. The present 3-letter domains have little in common wrt geography (eg some .com and .org sites are in Africa), but rather they have a lot to do with the association between the organisations. If you have a city-based domain structure, then you have the problem of the address changing (or should change, of course in practice this will be resisted) when someone moves to a new area code within the USA, just like a telephone number changes (which of course it does). Because this problem exists with telephones does not mean that it has to exist on the Internet. I'd like to think that if someone left South Africa, or someone from the US spent some time out here, that the text form (ie what humans remember) of their address would not have to change (and I don't mean simply the forwarding of email via a .forward file). If some is willing to register a hacker.us domain and run it properly, IMHO life would be a lot easier than requiring hackers to change their address each time that they move. Mike -- Mike Lawrie <[email protected]> Manager: Uninet Ph: +27 12 841 3542 Foundation for Research Development Fx: +27 12 804 2679 P O Box 2600, Pretoria 0001, RSA ^^ +27 12 349-1179 sometime in 1995
|