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- From: trsnyder@mcs.drexel.edu (Bob Snyder)
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- Subject: Re: Top level domains (was Re: Mixed format addresses)
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- Date: 30 Dec 92 13:43:03 GMT
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- In article <6IcPrAtMBh107h@boombox.apana.org.au> djk@boombox.apana.org.au (David Keegel) writes:
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- [...]
- Of course not. Wang is in the same boat as Sun, DEC, IBM, HP, Kodak
- and probably a whole bunch of others I don't know about in Aus.
-
- EDU is a simpler case -- I assume there are no (or very few) Uni's
- or equivalent which span national boundaries. But there would need
- to be separate COM. and COM.US. if this reorganisation were to happen.
-
- And GOV should theoretically be used by the UN (or whatever else claims
- to be a World Government) rather than being monopolised by the USA.
-
- [...]
-
- The COM. and ORG. should (if we could redesign the name space) be
- reserved for international organisations. As for Mars, Luna, etc,
- I don't see why they can't be allocated an ISO Country code (or more
- than one if they have multiple governments) and treated the same as
- an island (say AU). I guess there could also be a SP. domain for
- things "in space" if there are ever enough that don't belong in
- nasa.gov or whatever.su et al.
-
- From RFC 1836: The US Domain:
-
- 1.2 Top-Level Domains
-
- The top-level domains in the DNS are EDU, COM, GOV, MIL, ORG, INT,
- and NET, and all the 2-letter country codes from the list of
- countries in ISO-3166.
-
- Even though the intention was that any educational institution any
- where in the world could be registered under the EDU domain, in
- practice it has turned out with few exceptions only those in the
- United States have registered under EDU, similiary with COM (for
- commercial). In other countries, everything is registered under the
- 2-letter country code, often with some subdivision. For example, in
- Korea (KR) the second level names are AC for academic community, CO
- for commercial, GO for government, and RE for research. However each
- country may go it's own way about organizing its domain, and many
- have.
-
- Their (sic) are no plans of putting all of the organizational domains .EDU
- .GOV .COM etc., under .US.
-
-
- Bob
-