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Re: US Domain -- County Delegations

  • From: Curtis Villamizar
  • Date: Tue Aug 01 15:59:43 1995 
In message <[email protected][192.17.16.74]>, Ross Veach writes:
> At 2:39 AM 8/1/95, Paul Traina wrote:
> >Just to be obnoxious, let me state the ugly obvious programatic mapping...
> >use the first 2 or 3 letters in the 2nd layer domain name.
> >
> >cisco.com =        cisco.ci.com
> >nytimes.com =      nytimes.ny.com
> >real-routers.com = real-routers.re.com
> >
> >Since this is a purely implied and programatic mapping, the particularly
> >-cute- thing we can do is automagicly map this crud so no user ever has
> >to see the abomonation "cisco.ci.com".
> 
> Better yet, hash the 2nd layer domain name.


If we go with this sort of idea at all, for compatibility with older
resolvers, we should keep it a simple mapping.  No hashing.

Curtis