Issues in using DARPA domain names for computer mail

  • Authors:
  • Douglas E. Comer;Larry L. Peterson

  • Affiliations:
  • Purdue University;University of Arizona

  • Venue:
  • SIGCOMM '85 Proceedings of the ninth symposium on Data communications
  • Year:
  • 1985

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Abstract

Although the principle goal of the DARPA Domain Name project is to provide a distributed name resolution mechanism for host names in the DARPA Internet, it is envisioned that the domain naming scheme will also support names for mailboxes in a global mail system that extends to mail networks beyond the DARPA Internet. In addition to overviewing the fundamental ideas behind the domain name scheme and outlining a proposal for using domain names as an umbrella naming system for computer mail, we discuss the administrative and technical problems involved in using domain names in the global mail system.