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Re: US Domain -- County Delegations
From: Paul A Vixie <paul () vix com>
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 07:48:42 -0700
The whole point of a name space is to make things easier to remember.
This is the old invariant. It's varied. I'm still waiting for a proposal for a hierarchy which will hold 25,000,000 names and still have them all easy to remember, or easy to guess from external knowledge. The new "whole point of" the DNS name space is to provide names which change less often than IP addresses change. If we could do just that we'd be winning.
Maybe .com can be split by country that you are incorporated in and in the US moved under .us and further split by state of incorporation (or state in which you do primary business for unincorporated businesses and masquerades).
An excellent idea, in my opinion.
Perhaps in the US we could also do symbol.stock-exchg.com.us with a requirement that you be listed on that stock exchange (and maybe even delagated to the exchange), covering publicly held companies and do privately held companies by state if neccesary.
Almost anything that puts depth in the tree is "good". However, we should work toward a handful of different top level strategies -- and that hand is almost full already so we can't add indefinitely.
Current thread:
- Re: US Domain -- County Delegations, (continued)
- Re: US Domain -- County Delegations Geert Jan de Groot (Jul 28)
- Re: US Domain -- County Delegations Henry Clark (Jul 28)
- Re: US Domain -- County Delegations Nikos Mouat (Jul 28)
- Re: US Domain -- County Delegations Kevin Oberman (Jul 28)
- Re: US Domain -- County Delegations Curtis Villamizar (Jul 27)
- Re: US Domain -- County Delegations Interpath Hostmaster (Jul 31)
- Re: US Domain -- County Delegations Paul A Vixie (Jul 31)
- Re: US Domain -- County Delegations Michael Dillon (Jul 27)
- Re: US Domain -- County Delegations Bill Manning (Jul 27)
- Re: US Domain -- County Delegations Curtis Villamizar (Jul 27)
- Re: US Domain -- County Delegations Paul A Vixie (Jul 27)
- Re: US Domain -- County Delegations Kevin Oberman (Jul 27)
- Re: US Domain -- County Delegations Mike Lawrie (Jul 27)
- Re: US Domain -- County Delegations Alan Barrett (Jul 27)
- Re: US Domain -- County Delegations Paul A Vixie (Jul 27)
- Re: US Domain -- County Delegations Michael Dillon (Jul 27)