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rhys@cs.uq.oz.au (Rhys Weatherley) writes:

>Here's another suggestion, similar to C. Vance's.

>	surnametag.ident.priv.au

>where "surnametag" is derived from the user's surname, say with the first
>7 letters and a digit.  e.g. "elz1", "weather2", etc.  "ident" is some uniquely
>AARNet-allocated identifier to split the namespace up better.  What are these
>identifiers to look like?  Search me.  Derived from the current date?

Not a bad idea, but most people would prob. like their machine to
have a 'fancy' name or 'cute' not just their name... if you know
what I mean by that :-)

Course we could always divide it up by the month they registered:

	hostname.month.priv.au

or how about their salary?

	hostname.rich.priv.au hostname.poor.au hostname.filthy-rich.priv.au 

well ok, I'm getting a little crazy here :) It comes of being in too many
aus.* news reorg debates ;-)

>	machine.surnametag.ident.priv.au

yup


>One more thing before I shut up: will a "priv.au" MX registration come with
>a $1,000 AARNet-usage fee?  Very few private individuals can wear that kind of
>cost (together with the service provider costs), especially when they don't
>generate as much traffic as the universities, corporations, etc.  One of the
>motivations behind forming BrisNet was to share the costs around so that it
>becomes possible to get news and mail, even on a shoestring budget.  4Mb a
>month is an awful lot of mail traffic for one person.  There are lots of
>people out there itching to "get on", but get discouraged at the costs.

Well I'd suggest they do what the APANA (the pub.uu.oz.au lot) do, that
is each member pays $50 or so, and together they coff up the $1,000
needed. So in the priv case, if we had 100 people doing this, each
paying $10, then that's not so much is it? But then a snag develops
if kre wants subdomains to the priv.au then wouldn't the members of
that subdomain have to pay $1,000 each (as in $1,000 for a.priv.au
andf $1,000 for b.priv.au and so on... ?)

just random mutterings...

>Cheers,

>Rhys.
>--
>Rhys Weatherley, University of Queensland, Australia.
>rhys@cs.uq.oz.au  "I'm a FAQ nut - what's your problem?"

-richard

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