>Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Received: from USC-ECL.ARPA by SRI-NIC.ARPA with TCP; Sun 13 May 84 13:00:06-PDT >Date: 13 May 1984 12:15-PDT >Sender: ESTEFFERUD@USC-ECL >Subject: Re: Domain requirements >From: ESTEFFERUD@USC-ECL >To: namedroppers@SRI-NIC >Message-ID: <[USC-ECL]13-May-84 12:15:51.ESTEFFERUD> > >It seems to me that this new draft has gotten us into the troublesome >turf of semantic definitions, wherein we attempt to carve up the world >and assign responsibility and authority to non-existent entities for >large ill-defined clusters of users and their service hosts. > >We need to back away from this direction and return to dealing with >syntax, independent of who is going to get to be the real domain >authorities. The real domain authorities are going to be selected by >some political processes that are not identified well enough, in any >of the drafts we have considered, to allow us to seriously consider >deciding on any of the TOP level domains, ARPA included. > >It is my expectation that when the dust has settled, ARPA will >become what is actually is: a sub-domain of DDN that just happens to >be the lead community in development of network research and >technology. > >I think at this point we should all take a lesson from the IFIP6.5 >work on addressing, wherein is is clearly recognized that >international politics must be served (certainly not ignored or >resisted). This is evidenced by several references to the realization >that COUNTRY pre-empts the default position TOP level domain >authorities. We must cope with the fact that xyz.ARPA.DDN.US is a >very likely future domain address. > >And, within the US, we must realize that UUCP is a rational domain, >just because it is there, and it is large, and it supports a large >number of people who are fully dependent on it, in spite of its >deficiencies. There are other such domains that will not accept >subversion either. > >So, we can choose to spend our time sorting through this political >morass without either the political savy nor political clout to >resolve anything, or we can go back to working on the technical >syntactic structure within which the political decisions will >eventually be made. > >The main criterion for success will be whether we can invent a >technical structure that will prevent political decisions from making >a mess of Internet implementations. There just ain't no way that us >techies are going to be allowed to dictate domain structures beyond >the current bounds of the ARPA and DDN sub-nets. > >Reset, Restart ... Stef -- Richard Sexton | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://dns.vrx.net/tech/rootzone http://killifish.vrx.net http://www.mbz.org http://www.dnso.com Bannockburn, Ontario, Canada, 70 & 72 280SE, 83 300SD +1 (613) 473-1719
