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Article #12proposal for IAC.NZ
From: John Houlker
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1992 01:32
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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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!waikato.ac.nz!john From: john@waikato.ac.nz (John Houlker) Newsgroups: nz.netstatus 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 Lines: 33