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Re: Conflict resolution?

At 12:55 PM -0800 11/18/96, Leonid Egoshin wrote:
>    Tony, can you explain the reason for "strong preference for a single
>iTLD" ?
>    (I think it is due to DNS search engine behaviour but I may do mistake...)

	there is no technical reason to constrain TLDs to one, since there
already are approximately 200.  There IS a limit on the upper end, to
maintain decent cross-net performance.

	DNS technology is for straight lookup, not searching.

d/


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