[175384] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Tue Oct 21 12:54:20 2014
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From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
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Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 08:08:09 -0700
To: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Oct 20, 2014, at 10:18 PM, Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com> wrote:
> Not that anyone is looking for a solution but I suppose one possible
> solution would be to use the two-letter cctld then gov like
> parliament.uk.gov or parliament.ca.gov etc.
>=20
> No doubt there would be some collisions but probably not too serious.
Folks outside of the US have issues with the US government having a role =
in the administration of the root, even if that role is to ensure ICANN =
does screw the pooch. Having country governments use <country code>.GOV =
would, assuming .GOV was still managed by the USG, give the US =
government vastly greater and more direct control of the country's =
government's websites (not to mention a lovely source of metadata =
associated with lookups of those websites). Moving .GOV away from USG =
control is both wildly unlikely and pointless, particularly in a world =
of 400+ (and counting) TLDs.
AFAIK, reasons why the FNC decided to assert GOV and MIL were to be =
US-only were probably because the USG had already been using it, the =
operational value of switching would be low while the cost would've been =
high, some other governments were already using sub-domains within their =
ccTLDs, and/or it was seen as a good thing to encourage more ccTLD =
delegations and the use of those ccTLDs. The fact that it gives some =
political folk ammunition to complain about how the Internet is =
"controlled" by the USG is merely a side benefit (to them).
Regards,
-drc
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