[175295] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jimmy Hess)
Sun Oct 19 09:13:37 2014
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From: Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 08:13:10 -0500
To: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 7:12 AM, Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> wrote:
> But to make a long story short, and my memory's perhaps a bit rusty
> now, but my recollection is that shorter URL's looked nicer and there
> was significant money to be had running the registry, so there was
> some heavy lobbying against retiring .GOV in favor of .FED.US (and
> other .US locality domains).
[snip]
The same problem exists with .EDU capriciously adopting new criteria
that excludes any non-US-based institutions from being eligible. I
believe the major issue is that if a TLD is in the global namespace,
then it should NOT be allowed to restrict registrations based on
country; the internet is global and .GOV and .EDU are in Global
Namespace.
So then, why aren't .EDU and .GOV just allowed to continue to exist
but a community decision made to require whichever registry will be
contracted to manage .GOV to accept registrations from _all_
government entities regardless of nationality ?
In otherwords, rejection of the idea that a registry operating GTLD
namespace can be allowed to impose overly exclusive "eligibility
criteria"
> ... JG
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-JH
