Re: The view from my window

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 12:33 PM -0500 12/26/96, Paul Ezra Kautz wrote:

> People are resistant to change - remember how some COM-users feel about
> losing their domain? Fortunately, I think the American TLDs (GOV, EDU,
> MIL) won't threaten to sue as long as we give them enough time.
>

This could also be temporarily patched in BIND. All .EDU queries that
fail would get .US appended to them and retried.

> There is a place for exclusive registration - the second level.
>

Ah... but the namespace is recursive.

"There are no requirements on subdomains of top-level domains beyond
the requirements on higher-level domains themselves.  That is, the
requirements in this memo are applied recursively." - RFC1591

Regards,

Simon

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