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- From: jgd@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (John G Dobnick)
- Subject: Re: Pleasure.com mystery solved.
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.203324.15206@uwm.edu>
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- Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
- References: <1992Jul27.135126.1626@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 20:33:24 GMT
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- From article <1992Jul27.135126.1626@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu>, by greenie@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu:
-
- >to it. But since it was a test and not expected to remain online forever,
- >we did not bother registering the domain name - and we were under no obligation
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >to do so because it was through the commercial Internet and therefor not
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >under the auspices of the NIC and the NSF.
-
-
- Three items.
-
- 1. What is the "Commercial Internet", and where is the "central
- contact point" for it, if such a thing exists.
-
- 2. Assuming you really _have_ no obligation to register a temporary
- domain name with "The NIC", how do you prevent collisions in the
- domain name-space? It would seem that there has to be _some_
- central clearinghouse to prevent such collisions.
-
- A possibility comes to mind -- the NIC has delegated "domain
- registry authority" to the "Commercial Internet", who has full
- control over the "COM" domain. "Is this the true state of
- things?", he asked curiously. If this is not the case, I can see
- a situation where the "Commercial" Internet registers a particular
- domain [e.g, xyzzy.com], and someone else registers this same
- domain with the NIC. Who wins when these are advertised by the
- nameservers?
-
- 3. Similar to the above, but with no easily apparent resolution, is
- the question of how one prevents IP address collisions. Since the
- "NSF/MIL Internets" seem to be interconnected with the
- "Commercial" Internet, and they _are_, aren't they? :-), they must
- needs share that same address space. It seems to me that there
- thus must be _a_ central clearinghouse for assigning IP addresses,
- in order to prevent collisions. (The NIC comes to mind here as a
- reasonable site for such a clearinghouse.) This leads me to
- believe that there _is_ an obligation to register domains. (The
- only exception I can think of is if the registration authority
- 'lends' one of its _own_ IP addresses to this new entity.)
-
- Or am I missing something very obvious in what transpired here?
-
- Confused and puzzled by the situation,
- --
- John G Dobnick ATTnet: (414) 229-5727
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- and is thus a source of civilized delight." -- William Safire
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