[175313] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (shawn wilson)
Mon Oct 20 05:58:09 2014
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Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 05:58:01 -0400
From: shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com>
To: "Mike." <the.lists@mgm51.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Oct 19, 2014 9:53 AM, "Mike." <the.lists@mgm51.com> wrote:
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> I'd rather see .gov (and by implication, .edu) usage phased out and
> replaced by country-specific domain names (e.g. fed.us).
>
> imo, the better way to fix an anachronism is not to bend the rules so
> the offenders are not so offensive, but to bring the offenders into
> compliance with the current rules.
>
Bad idea. I'm betting we'd find half of gov web sites down due to not being
able to reboot and issues in old coldfusion and IIS and the like (and
needing to fix static links and testing etc). No, if it ain't broke don't
fix it.
