[175344] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Sheldon)
Mon Oct 20 18:46:19 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 17:46:09 -0500
From: Larry Sheldon <larrysheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On 10/20/2014 17:09, manning bill wrote:
> FNC “reserved” .gov and .mil for the US.
>
> And Postel was right… there was/is near zero reason to technically
> extend/expand the number of TLDs.
It appears to this outsider that Postel and others never understood at
all that the sole purpose and destiny of what they were inventing was
Marketing, with secondary importance in social networking and politics.
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The fact that they learn from their mistakes.
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