[175299] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mehmet Akcin)
Sun Oct 19 10:00:57 2014
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From: Mehmet Akcin <mehmet@akcin.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAAAwwbUJPspYz=GDRMYFaP-WOOfhODcC8=B4g_J4h7LQyV+JLQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 07:00:45 -0700
To: Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>, Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
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> On Oct 19, 2014, at 6:13 AM, Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 7:12 AM, Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> wrote:
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>> 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]
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> 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.
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> 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 ?
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> In otherwords, rejection of the idea that a registry operating GTLD
> namespace can be allowed to impose overly exclusive "eligibility
> criteria"
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>> ... JG
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> -JH
