Internet vs .edu

[Ron Natalie <ron>]

In article <2493 at utai.UUCP>, lamy at utai.UUCP (Jean-Francois Lamy) writes:
> 
> Seems that there are a fair number of Internet sites that still don't
> grok .edu and .com addresses for sites that are not physically on the
> Internet (i.e. they don't query a name server or pass messages to
> somebody else).
> 
> Has some sort of a deadline been set?
No.  No deadline has been set.  As a matter of fact the methodology
for properly handling name server mail records for non-internet hosts
was rather recently redefined and still has at least one degenerate case
in it.

I'd expect expect this to be a rather hot topic at the Internet Engineering
Task Force meeting in Palo Alto next week.
-Ron