It's not reasonable. It's obvious. NSI of course wants as little
competition as possible for the commercial domains.
Wouldn't bringing all the commercially-oriented TLDs
together under one aegis encourage rather than discourage
competition? There still is the registry-registrar
bifurcation, but that could be eliminated.
Patently false. ccTLDs have been ruled on a first come first serve
principle and RFC 1591.
Perhaps most fundamentally, the DNS was instituted as a
means distributing maintenance of host names, not in
creating formal authoritative national domain regimes.
The latter already existed in the form of the F.401 domain
name system - which existed in parallel with the RFC 1034
approach.
> operating as ISO-3166 countries (or subdivisions thereof), and TLDs
> who don't (which includes everybody else).
What do you do about arpa, mil, gov, int, and edu?
It boils down to opening the root to more gTLDs. Whether you call them
open or closed makes no difference.
I do not see the requirement to regulate this. Let the market
decide between .NU and .COM.
Doesn't that argue for a generic open TLD approach
sans the registry-registrar distinction?
--tony
