introducing metalug

[Christopher Browne]

On 10/29/06, David J Patrick <davidjpatrick-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> As yet, it's all in my head, but I've taken the liberty of registering
> a few domains, and here's what I'd like to do with them;
>
> metalug.com - the global lug site, that attempts to track lugs (and if
> they exist, other metalugs) worldwide.
>
> metalug.org - a gathering place for lug resources; website CMSs,
> templates, membership management software, documents, how-to, and the
> like.
>
> metalug.net - a gateway for interlug communication, mailing list
> hosting / interlug announcements etc.
>
> metalug.ca - the Canadian metalug, listing all known Canadian LUGs
> with maps and contact info and Canadian Interlug forums.

I have a counterargument.

All of these BUT the .ca domain are under global TLDs, so the notion
of the .com one being "the global lug site" has something a little bit
nonsensical about it.

The only one of those that strikes me as being particularly relevant
for any "functional" reason is the .net one; the .net TLD tends to be
used for network glue, which means that it would make sense for DNS to
get managed via metalug.net.  Thus, presumably, the other domains
would have, as their nameservers, say, ns1.metalug.net and
ns2.metalug.net (which certainly otta be VERY SEPARATE servers!).

Outside of that, there are perfectly good ways of attaching hierarchy
to domain names.

global.metalug.org - tracking the global matters
documents.metalug.org - for documentary matters
howtos.metalug.org - Guess?  :-)
membership.metalug.org - for the "membership CMS" stuff
mail.metalug.org - where mail goes
interlug.metalug.org - for inter-LUG related matters

A national metalug site could have similar relevant hierarchies to
indicate things:
mail.metalug.ca
interlug.metalug.ca
documents.metalug.ca (with CA-specific stuff)

Those are much more natural hierarchy systems than "try to map this
onto org, com, net, ca" provide (btw, you forgot .INFO!  :-))
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