[175303] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Franck Martin)
Sun Oct 19 12:21:25 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Franck Martin <fmartin@linkedin.com>
To: Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 16:21:15 +0000
In-Reply-To: <CAAAwwbUJPspYz=GDRMYFaP-WOOfhODcC8=B4g_J4h7LQyV+JLQ@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>, Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
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On Oct 19, 2014, at 9:13 AM, Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 ?
>
You forgot .MIL , this one will be even more fun to change...
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