On 16-Feb-99 Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
> > Oh, I agree with you entirely, unless, for instance, the chartering
> > authority were to take care of that for you by, say, issuing valid PGP keys
> > before a domain application was even possible.
>
> I don't follow. How would verification of the sender allow automatic
> determination of content?
Say for example, that some international accrediting group for Penguin Research
Scientists issues a PGP encrypted coupon for a domain name in the .penguin TLD
to each of their members. They would have to submit this coupon along with
their domain application to validate that they "belong" to this group and thus
meet the charter.
My problem with all of this is that we are limiting the use of a string to
particular purpose. .penguin could also be used for other purposes, and to
restrict the use of that string to a particular purpose ONLY basically strikes
me badly.
I've yet to see an example of it that isn't wrought with problems. Someone
said .doctor be administer by the AMA, but they means that other "doctors" who
are not medical doctors are deprived of the use of a string that also
identifies them. Now, say we had .doctor, we could delegate md.doctor to the
AMA and they could then issue names as they please.
Even .EDU has real issues surrounding its use. 2 year degree granting
institutions cannot register names, neither can other educational institutions
that are not 4 year degree granting. But someone decided that .edu should only
represent 4 year degree institutes.
Does that unfairly limit the ability of others who could make good use of that
string?
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E-Mail: William X. Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 15-Feb-99
Time: 20:32:03
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