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Topic: ns-6
Document Updated: 28 Jul 87
Subject: Register by Electronic Mail
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CSNET Coordination and Information Center (CIC) Hotline: 617/497-2777
10 Moulton Street Email: cic@sh.cs.net
Cambridge, MA 02238 Info-Server requests to: info-server@sh.cs.net
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REGISTER BY ELECTRONIC MAIL
If no host computer at the CSNET member site runs the Local Agent
Software, the CSNET Technical Liaison can arrange to have the
registrations performed by the CSNET Coordination and Information
Center (CIC) by sending a message to cic@sh.cs.net, or telephoning the
CIC at 617/497-2777.
The information for users to be registered should be sent in a message
addressed to cic@sh.cs.net. Tables ns-6.1 and ns-6.2 show sample
registrations for multiple names. The field names, such as "Account",
"MBox", etc., should start in column 1 of the body of the message.
The field contents should start in column 2. The User Name Server
will turn the space in column 1 into a tab, so lines should be no more
than 72 characters long.
You may put as many registrations as you wish in a message -- just
separate them with a row of hyphens or some other marker.
The tables show the MBox (MailBox) addresses for sites with
domain-style names. All Internet now have domain-style names, and
CSNET PhoneNet sites have either converted to the domain system, or
are in the process of doing so. (For more information about
domain-style names, see REFERENCES at the end of this document.)
The purpose of the Account string is to provide a unique identifier
for each person registered in the User Name Server. It has the form
user,host,site
Before the Internet domain name system was adopted, the designers of
the User Name Server, intended the "host" string to be the name of
the user's host computer, and the "site" string to be a unique name
assigned by CSNET to the CSNET member organization.
Now that the Internet domain name system assigns unique hierarchical
names, the Account string should incorporate the domain names in some
reasonable way.
"User", "host" and "site" are just strings of characters, as far as
the User Name Server is concerned. As long as we don't end up with
duplicate Account strings, the exact scheme used to form the Account
string doesn't matter very much. Here are some suggestions:
1. The "user" string should be the user's login name, or the
name under which he or she receives mail.
2. The domain name assigned to an entire organization consists
of a second-level domain unique to the organization, followed
by one of the top-level domains such as ".edu" or "com".
For example, AAA College might have the domain name
"aaa.edu".
If outsiders can send mail to anyone at the site, for example,
"aaa.edu" by using the address "user@aaa.edu", the Account
string can be
user,aaa.edu,aaa.edu
3. If outsiders must know the name of a lower-level domain --
which might be the name of a department within the
organization -- the lower-level domain can be placed in the
"host" string, and the domain for the organization should be
in the "site" string. For example, a user in the Computer
Science Department of ZZZ University might have the Account:
user,cs.zzz.edu,zzz.edu
But if addresses must be specified down to the name of an
individual host computer, you can use hostnames, too. You
might include the full domain name of the computer:
user,zebra.cs.zzz.edu,zzz.edu
Or, if you can guarantee that there is no other "zebra" in
"zzz.edu", you might use just the host name as it is used on
the internal network:
user,zebra,zzz.edu
TABLE ns-6.1. SAMPLE MESSAGE FOR USERS AT SITE AAA.EDU
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|HEADER FIELDS |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|To: cic@sh.cs.net |
|Subject: User Name Server registrations for aaa.edu |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|BODY OF MESSAGE |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Account |
| alice,aaa.edu,aaa.edu |
|MBox |
| alice@aaa.edu |
|CsnPass |
| abc123 |
|FullName |
| Alice A. Amherst |
|Address |
| office: AAA College home: 456 Something St. |
| Computer Science Dept. Somewhere, MA 00000 |
| 123 Anything St. |
| Anywhere, MA 00000 |
|Phone |
| office: 617/123-4567 x89 home: 617/765-4321 |
|Misc |
| tcp 1 local area networks amhearst, amerst |
|- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |
|Account |
| albert,aaa,aaa |
|MBox |
| albert@aaa.edu |
|CsnPass |
| efghij |
|FullName |
| Albert B. Carlson |
|Address |
| office: AAA College home: 2728 Denver Avenue ... |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
TABLE ns-6. SAMPLE MESSAGE FOR THE CS DEPARTMENT OF ZZZ.EDU
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|HEADER FIELDS |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|To: cic@sh.cs.net |
|Subject: User Name Server registrations for cs.zzz.edu |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|BODY OF MESSAGE |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
fi/adr-2|Account |
| zack,zebra.cs.zzz.edu,zzz.edu |
|MBox |
| zack@zebra.cs.zzz.edu |
|CsnPass |
| xyz321 |
|FullName |
| Zack Z. Zimmerman |
|Address |
| office: ZZZ University ... (etc.) ... |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
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REFERENCES (Available from the CSNET Info Server):
Topics under Request: info
adr-1 CSNET Addresses and the Domain System
adr-2 Transition to Domains
Topics under Request: rfc
RFC733 "Standard for the Format of ARPA Network Text Messages", David H.
Crocker (The Rand Corporation), John J. Vittal (Bolt Beranek and
Newman Inc.), Kenneth T. Pogran (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology), D. Austin Henderson, Jr.(Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc.) 21
November 1977.
RFC822 "Standard for the Format of ARPA Internet Text Messages", David H.
Crocker (University of Delaware), August 1982.
RFC882 "Domain Names - Concepts and Facilities", P. Mockapetris
(Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California),
November 1983.
RFC883 "Domain Names - Implementation and Specification", P. Mockapetris
(Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California),
November 1983.
RFC920 "Domain Requirements", J. Postel and J. Reynolds (Information
Sciences Institute, University of Southern California), October 1984.
RFC921 "Domain Names System Implementation Schedule - Revised", Jon Postel
(Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California),
October 1984.
RFC973 "Domain System Changes and Observations", Paul Mockapetris
(Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California),
January 1983. Supplements RFC 883.
RFC974 "Mail Routing and the Domain System", Craig Partridge (CSNET CIC,
BBN Laboratories, Inc.), January 1986.