Some senseless babbling from Baden Kudrenecky to David Noon
on 08 Dec 98  00:26:22 about OS/2 C++ Programming?...

 BK> Responding to David Noon from 1998-12-02 concerning OS/2 C++
 BK> Programming?, on Os2prog  

 BK> Hi David:
 
 DN> Funny looking address. It doesn't have a com, gov, edu or org ahead of the
 DN> .de suffix. Still, if I need some support on EMX I'll give it a try.

 BK> Top level Internet domains ideally should all have a
 BK> country code, which 'de' is for Deutschland.  The
 BK> Americans are the only ones with top level 'gov',
 BK> 'mil', 'org', 'edu', and 'com', although now Internic
 BK> has commercialised 'com', so it is available world
 BK> wide, for a fee.  I think the USA should use 'us', but
 BK> I have never seen it.

Well, I guess we get special treatment because our government created 
ARPAnet, which is what's now called the Internet.

It, and the protocol TCP/IP, was originally developed as a military 
networking system with fault handling (one router goes down, another can 
take over).  

Mike Ruskai
thanny{at}home.com


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