Re: Apparent Fraud: Domain Name Survey

["Donald E. Eastlake 3rd" <dee@cybercash.com>]

See RFCs 1528, 1529, 1530, 1703.  All of the worlds phone numbers are 
mapped into the tpc.int domain by taking the full number, including 
country code, reversing it, and putting dots between the digits.  For 
example, the name associated with my home's main number is 
7.7.8.4.7.8.2.8.0.5.1.tpc.int.  This strucutre makes it easy to carve out 
zones associated with some administrative levels such a phone exchanges, 
countries, etc.  (tpc = The Phone Company)

Messages about this have already appeared on the iahc list.

Donald

 On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, Martin J. Duerst wrote:

> Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 14:21:13 +0100 (MET)
> From: Martin J. Duerst <mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch>
> To: "Donald E. Eastlake 3rd" <dee@cybercash.com>
> Subject: Re: Apparent Fraud: Domain Name Survey
> 
> On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, you wrote:
> 
> > In any case, since the primary purpose of the DNS is to provide *stable* and
> > menmonic or systematic names (*.in-add.arpa and *.tpc.int are systematic
> > examples, almost all others are menonic) you need to be very careful about
> > creating new root names.  As soon as there are a nontrivial number of
> > registrants in it, you are more or less stuck with it forever. 
> 
> *.in-addr.arpa is mentionned in every text about DNS, but I don't
> know about *.tpc.int. Any pointers greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,		Martin Du"rst.
> 
> P.S.: You can post the answer to the (iahc-discuss) list if you want.

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