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dl3no@infoac.rmi.de writes:

>Can someone explain why the ampr.org namespace is flat? IMHO it's a stupid
>idea! Trying to route mail to callsign.ampr.org must be hell.
>
>My suggestion: the first subdomain below ampr.org SHOULD be the two-letter
>country prefix. After that, each country should decide its own subdomains.
>
>For example, Australia's country code is `au'. And our network here in the
>Australian Capital Territory is small enough to fit into its own subdomain,
>so I would use
>
>	henry.vk1xwt.act.au.ampr.org
>	minnie.vk1xwt.act.au.ampr.org

This is ambiguous unless you remain at home.  It might be tough to route
mail in a flat name space, but it is even tougher to route it when the
routing information is misleading.

This same idea of "making it work for the very least common denominator"
also exists in TCP/IP.  IP is (considered to be) an UNreliable protocol,
which removes any dependency on intermediate reliability.  Had IP been
reliable, everything else would have depended on that, and when things
do break the few times that they do, everything would go down the instant
it did.

>My only other suggestion: the full domain name of each machine SHOULD
>have the callsign in it somewhere.

A truly geographical name does not need the callsign.
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