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From: Michael Keller
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 17:12

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Brian.

Brian Brunner wrote:

> Can you please answer me with a sentence or two about the origin of the
> decision to name the hierarchy 'ch.'?

CH is latin and means 'confoederatio helvetica' (helvetic federation) 
where helvetia is the roman name of the region of today's switzerland.

This abbreviation is used for international car signs, the internation 
monetary unit (CHF = CH - franks) and as top level domain of switzerland.

It was chosen as a non - discriminating consensus in respect to the four 
official languages (german, french, italian and romanic) spoken in 
switzerland.

hth
   Michael Keller
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From: Michael Keller <mikeller@iiic.ethz.ch>
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Subject: Re: <1998-09-08> The ch.market.* Newsgroups
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