[137500] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Brunner-Williams)
Mon Feb 14 16:45:18 2011
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:44:41 -0500
From: Eric Brunner-Williams <brunner@nic-naa.net>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <976D33C1-A3C6-462B-A0CA-5FC0BE31D9AE@delong.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 2/14/11 3:30 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
>
> On Feb 14, 2011, at 7:12 AM, Eric Brunner-Williams wrote:
>
>> owen,
>>
>> at several points you assert that gtlds are "global", which i suggest is an error on your part.
>>
> TLDs come in two flavors.
>
> GTLD -- Global Top Level Domain -- A domain which contains records for entities not restricted
> to a particular geographical area.
>
> CCTLD -- Country Code Top Level Domain -- A domain which is under the control of a particular
> national government represented by the corresponding 2-letter ISO country code.
>
> The G in GTLD is Global... I'm not asserting anything, it's flat out in the term.
ok. we've reached the point where your subject matter expertise is
obviously greater than mine.
i've been working in icann policy and registry technology since ...
well, since the nic contract was one floor below my office in sri's
e-building.
and you _know_ that "g" means "global".
-e
