Re: RFC920 domains

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From: Pedro Celis
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1985 14:13

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In Article 484 of net.mail.headers:
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> > > I think that is important that anyone who is tempted to jump into the
> > > domain discussion consider that what we really want is a way to name
> > > hosts *independent* of their physical location or physical network
> > > address, ...
> 
> In <2329@icarus.fluke.UUCP>  joe@fluke attempts to reply:
> > When is everyone going to realize that the point of domains is to separate
> > the physical addressing from the naming?
> 
> >Domain names have absolutely nothing to do with routing.  
> 
> Just because I don't agree with you, don't think that means I don't
> understand domain naming, domain servers, and so on. ...
> 			    ...  Conversely, I route some messages
> to New Jersey and Illinois to get to Northern California, because
> the path is shorter--smart domain addressing might send it from
> San Diego to Silicon Valley in one hop.

Once again. What does a domain scheme to NAME a host has to do with
the ROUTE used to send messages to that host?
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From: pcelis@watdaisy.UUCP (Pedro Celis)
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Subject: Re: RFC920 domains
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Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 10:13:26 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 27 10:13:26 1985
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