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Re: Conflict resolution?

>To: Leonid Egoshin <egoshin@genesyslab.com>
>
>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.=
>=2E.)
>
>	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.
>
    Dave, the phone numbers 1-800-XXXXXXX also is "for straight lookup"
but anybody knows that is XXXXXXX now. And why. Internet is not exclusion
and using DNS as search engine will be continue up to we have a strings of
letters as Internet address.

					- Leonid Yegoshin, LY22