[ih] bang paths, was Domain Names

[Dave CROCKER]

On 1/20/2010 8:37 AM, Craig Partridge wrote:
> The assimilation of USENET (and CSNET and to a lesser degree BITNET) into
> ARPANET was intentionally enabled...

Each of these had their own syntax.

UUCP was strictly route-based sequencing of the fields,

    hop1!by!hop2

CSNet augmented Arpanet email addresses with

     mailbox%offnet-host at Arpanet-gateway-host

As I recall, Bitnet was a dotted sequence of hostnames, but I don't remember 
whether it had global hostnaming or was route-based.

d/
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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
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