Talk:JANET NRS

Does my memory deceive me, or could one use long-form names for every domain? e.g. uk.ac.man.cs.p4 could also be united-kingdom.academic.manchester.computer-science.project4? Flup 14:57, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

it wasn't ubiquitous. some did, some didnt. it was pretty bloody obviously silly to construct a longform for york or leeds

as a minor twiddle SERCnet restricted names to 4 chars. York was YKXA for instance. EDEE was the Edinburgh Uni Computing Centre. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.12.29.224 (talk) 03:42, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

References

Can someone provide some references or external links about this topic? --TrollHistorian 18:14, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

http://neil.franklin.ch/Usenet/alt.folklore.computers/20020906_What_is_the_British_Grey_Book_protocol

Possible merge

I just finished writing Coloured Book protocols, since there were red links to it, but now I'm wondering whether we should merge the two articles. The Wednesday Island 17:26, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Dubious Claim

The decision to use .uk not .gb was not just (if at all) a legacy of JANET NRS. GB does not have include Northern Ireland and at the time the NI situation was sensitive enough that the universities were genuinely worried that people would end up dying over the misuse of .gb for Northern Ireland 82.70.14.226 (talk) 14:22, 28 August 2022 (UTC)

The point is, it’s use on JANET NRS (for whatever reason) led to its use as the CCTLD on the Internet, rather than the ISO standard, which was used for all other countries. That is, the UK was the only country with a pre-existing national standard. Whizz40 (talk) 07:07, 29 August 2022 (UTC)