tpc.int is no fraud

[Steve Goldstein <sgoldste@nsf.gov>]

Carl Malamud used this in an global cooperation (I forget what he called
it) that never seemed to get too far off the ground, but whose concept was
very sound, for sending FAXes over the Internet to a FAX server near the
destination.  I wish it were still around; it worked beautifully!

--Steve Goldstein
National Science Foundation



>Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 18:16:36 -0500 (EST)
>From: "Donald E. Eastlake 3rd" <dee@cybercash.com>
>To: "Martin J. Duerst" <mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch>
>Cc: iahc-discuss@imc.org
>Subject: Re: Apparent Fraud: Domain Name Survey
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>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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