[799] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: IETF questions -- Internet growth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (vcerf@NRI.Reston.VA.US)
Sat Jun 1 16:36:09 1991
To: David Herron <david@twg.com>
Cc: ietf@isi.edu, com-priv@uu.psi.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 30 May 91 09:24:23 PDT."
Date: Sat, 01 Jun 91 16:30:06 -0400
From: vcerf@NRI.Reston.VA.US
David,
My understanding is that the States have been grandfathered in
as part of the hierarchy. What that means is that you might
have a registered OID that included CA in the string, such
as: CA-FOO or maybe FOO-CA (or perhaps FOO.CA?); in the
FOO.CA example, FOO is registered as unique in CA but that
FOO.NY isn't ruled out. Also, it would be important to
reject at the national level, any attempt to register FOO.XX
where .XX is one of the State 2-letter abbreviations since
this would conflict, potentially, with a state registration.
The purpose behind registering at state level is to assure
uniqueness of the complete string while distributing the
registration function and, perhaps, reducing the costs to
the registrants.
If anyone has any more accurate information on the question
of state-level registration and naming, please jump in.
Vint
