ISIF.ARPA => ADA20.ISI.EDU on Sunday

ISIF.ARPA => ADA20.ISI.EDU on Sunday

[Karl Nyberg]

[Forwarded from the ISI staff.]

The Domain Name System has been developed to improve the maintenance
and access of host name data.  It is now ready for implementation, and
policies have been adopted for converting all ARPA hosts to this system.
These policies require that the general nature of an organization which
supports a host be reflected in the host's name, i.e., Educational (EDU),
Commercial (COM), or Military (MIL).  ISI is classified as Educational
and will thus be in the EDU domain.  Note that the policies also require 
that the ARPA domain be phased out.

The official ISI host names will be changed on Sunday, June 29th. The 
new name for this host will be ADA20.ISI.EDU.  The old official name, 
USC-ISIF.ARPA, will continue to be a nickname; however, old nicknames 
such as USC-ISIF, ISIF, ADA-20 and ADA20 will be phased out over the
next few months.  Please begin notifying users who send you mail using
these old nicknames that they should begin using the new official name
to avoid mail delivery failures after the nicknames are invalid.  In
addition, it is important that all mailing list files be modified to use
the new official names (i.e., user@ADA20.ISI.EDU).

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What this means to users of info-ada is that they should start
addressing their mail (starting next monday) to info-ada@ada20.isi.edu.
If your mailer doesn't support domains, shame on your system
administrator (actually, you should be able to use the .ARPA domain for
a few months still, but should change over as soon as possible).

Questions, problems, comments, etc, to info-ada-request.

-- Karl --

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