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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Namespace conflicts
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 09:21:50AM -0800, Owen DeLong wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 09:10:09AM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin mailed: > > > In my area of NJ, virtually every town's "obvious" .com domain names were > > > grabbed by one of two competing would-be service providers. They had > > > absolutely no town-specific content -- but if the town wanted a Web > > > site, they had no choice but to deal with these folks. I have no major [snip] > > Uh, why couldn't the town just use <name>.nj.us or whatever the city specific > > code was long ago and far way. > > No. However, they could use ci.<name>.nj.us, and that's where I usually go > if I'm looking for a particular city's web site. > > The reason for this distinction is to support things like: > > ci.alameda.ca.us City of Alameda > co.alameda.ca.us County of Alameda > joesshoes.alameda.ca.us Joe's Shoe Shop in Alameda, CA > > etc. There's an RFC that spells all this out (1680 comes to mind, but not > sure that's the right number). RFC1480 seems to be the one. -c
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