[175352] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Mon Oct 20 21:13:34 2014
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From: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 09:10:48 +0800
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Oct 21, 2014, at 6:09 AM, manning bill <bmanning@isi.edu> wrote:
> there was/is near zero reason to technically extend/expand the number =
of TLDs.
Equally, no reason not to.
> On 20October2014Monday, at 12:19, Sandra Murphy <sandy@tislabs.com> =
wrote:
>=20
>> By the time of RFC1591, March 1994, authored by Jon Postel, said:
>>=20
>> GOV - This domain was originally intended for any kind of government
>> office or agency. More recently a decision was taken to
>> register only agencies of the US Federal government in this
>> domain.
>>=20
>> No reference as to who, when, or how.
Passive voice considered harmful.
-Bill
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