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> anyone for 'ipadmin'? seriously. I'm against that. I am striving to limit the level of ``invention'' in this document and really just substantially cover the best of current practices. If InterNIC can cope with a single address (HOSTMASTER) for both domain and address allocation issues, I suspect that the rest of us can do the same. I am considering the proposal of a CERT address per domain. While SECURITY and others are more _prevalent_, I'm not sure that they represent the _best_ of current practices. Since "The CERT" has recommended per-domain CERT addresses, I think that the next public draft will recommend a CERT address and relegate SECURITY to "less well known" status. Comments are of course welcome on this change. The "less well known" table is perilously close to overflow already. I have resisted adding everything that anybody knows of or can imagine, since what I really want to do is (a) codify the minimum useful address set, and (b) do some lip service to existing end-user expectations of things I don't think we ought to be recommending. Due to those same concerns, I resisted (mightily, and I won) the temptation to add sections talking about well known whois.<domain> servers, DNS RP RR's, current international and national registry lists, how to use Alta Vista to locate folks, a little ditty about the old (dead?) whois phone book, and so on. If _I_ (of all people!) can resist the temptation to borrow GNU Emacs' "kitchen sink" logo for the first page of the postscript version of this document, then I expect the rest of you (who presumably have better sense and more self control) can also avoid asking this document to expand to the size of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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