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Groups named to support UW organizations use short organization identifiers as the component following the uw_ stem. Typically these names are used as stems for the management of potentially many groups within that organization. As a general rule names under this stem will correspond to DNS subdomains under uw.edu or washington.edu that have been delegated for organizational use. For example, if a fictional UW organization "Pavement Science" has an existing DNS subdomain "pavesci.washington.edu", then
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Note: Changes affecting the use or deployment of the naming plan are recorded here. Editorial changes or clarifications need not be recorded here.
Date | Name | Description |
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16-Jun-2008 | RL "Bob" Morgan | Change section 4.1 to remove application UW NetIDs, clarify examples; change section 4.2 to make examples more generic |
11-Jun-2008 | RL "Bob" Morgan | Change section 4.2 to include support for organization names under the uw_ stem. |
28-May-2008 | RL "Bob" Morgan | Change section 4.1 (UW NetID Stem) to indicate that admin netids can have these groups, but mailing list names cannot. |