- From: Larry Masinter <lmnet@attglobal.net>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 12:54:07 -0700
- To: "Ian King" <iking@microsoft.com>, "Aaron Swartz" <aswartz@swartzfam.com>, "Linda Bellitt \(by way of Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>\)" <linda.bellitt@hunterdouglas.com>, <uri@w3.org>
> One could think of the "www" node in the same way mail servers are often > named "mail.foo.com", nameservers are "dns.foo.com", etc. It's a > convention that got started some time back, but it has no formal basis > or meaning. But RFC 2219 "Use of DNS Aliases for Network Services" is a Best Current Practice and gives several reasons why distinguishing between www.realbeer.com and realbeer.com might be a good idea. Larry -- http://larry.masinter.net
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