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proposal for IAC.NZ

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From: John Houlker
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1992 01:32
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We have had a request to add a new `top level' NZ domain within the
DNS, namely

	IAC.NZ

meaning the New Zealand International Antarctic Centre - this is
for various organisations based at the IAC in Christchurch that
participate in Antarctic programs.  These evidently include
operations from a number of different countries, so they have
proposed a naming scheme of the form

	host.org.IAC.NZ

They are keen that the New Zealand flavour is in the name, but
also that the different national program components are represented.

This follows the approach we have had so far in that entries within
NZ (with the exception of ARCHIE.NZ) represent groupings of
particular common types (here we have the "Antarctic Research
Organisation" type, which might be compared with CRI.NZ).  It is a
little unsual, however, since it also corresponds to a single site
(all-be-it a multi-organisation site).

Does anyone have any strong opinions about the creation of such a
domain?  Should we create - as discussed earlier - something like a
domain for research organisations (more general than CRI.NZ) and
use this to locate the IAC?   The research domain names suggested
before included such as RI.NZ, RES.NZ, so we would get something like:

	IAC.RES.NZ

Thoughts?
John
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From: john@waikato.ac.nz (John Houlker)
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Subject: proposal for IAC.NZ
Message-ID: <1992Aug3.133259.9804@waikato.ac.nz>
Date: 3 Aug 92 13:32:58 +1200
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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