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        RFC 1876:

        Title:      A Means for Expressing Location Information in the
                    Domain Name System
        Author:     C. Davis, P. Vixie, T. Goodwin & I. Dickinson
        Date:       January 1996
        Mailbox:    ckd@kei.com, paul@vix.com, tim@pipex.net,
                    idickins@fore.co.uk 
        Pages:      18
        Characters: 29,631
        Updates:    1034, 1035

        URL:        ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1876.txt


This memo defines a new DNS RR type for experimental purposes.  This
RFC describes a mechanism to allow the DNS to carry location
information about hosts, networks, and subnets.  Such information for
a small subset of hosts is currently contained in the flat-file UUCP
maps.  However, just as the DNS replaced the use of HOSTS.TXT to carry
host and network address information, it is possible to replace the
UUCP maps as carriers of location information.

This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.
This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.
Discussion and suggestions for improvement are requested.
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Joyce K. Reynolds
USC/Information Sciences Institute