[ih] .UK vs .GB

[Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond]

Agreeing to all of the other important points that were made.

On 14/04/2018 03:09, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> 2. Therefore, when SERCnet a.k.a. JANET invented Grey Book email, they
> chose "UK" as the politically accurate top level domain (as in user at uk.ac.ucl).

Actually, to differentiate between NRS & DNS notation, we used to use
uppercase letters for NRS, thus user at UK.AC.UCL.CS.NSS <--- as NRS was no
DNS, thus the complete computer's name usually needed to be provided.


-- 
Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD
http://www.gih.com/ocl.html

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