domains other than ARPA

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From: Free Advice
Date: Sun, 06 May 1984 18:36

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What are the prospects on official words about top-level domains
other than ARPA? Seems to me there is a conflict here. In order to
make addresses absolute, all hosts have to know about all top-level domains.
If more domains, eg BITNET, UUCP, etc., are officially added, then
official recognition, if not permission, between the Arpanet and
non-DDN nets is implied. If no domains at the level of ARPA are added,
then the domain naming scheme is almost worthless. People on the
arpanet don't need domains, since .ARPA is default and each host knows
about every other one (not strictly true, but mosher%ucbarpa@Berkeley
is absolute without being domain based). Addresses bound from the
arpanet to nets which aren't subsets of the arpanet will either
be absolute without being domain based (uucphost!user@Berkeley),
or will be domain based but not absolute (user@host.BITNET works
from here, but not from most arpanet  hosts).

Any ideas on how this may be resolved?

Robert Morris, morris@harv-10.

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