In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "A.M. Rutkowsk
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> At 11:18 AM 4/28/99 , Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
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> >It's not reasonable. It's obvious. NSI of course wants as little
> >competition as possible for the commercial domains.
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> 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.
Under whom?
However, why should that be done? It's not broken.
> >Patently false. ccTLDs have been ruled on a first come first serve
> >principle and RFC 1591.
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> 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.
I have been saing this all along, that the DNS is technical means, not
a marketing tool.
> >> 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?
MIL and GOV are no problem. None at all. If you really want to you can
even keep them (for historic reasons, they got us where we are now) or
you move them where they belong, gov.US.
EDU is a slightly bigger problem, if there are non US institutions in
there. If not, it belongs into edu.US.
.INT? those three domains in there?
.arpa? Doesn't exist.
Neither of those are commercially used.
> >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.
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> Doesn't that argue for a generic open TLD approach sans the
> registry-registrar distinction?
Dunno. Don't care. If the Domain Manager for .NU wants to market .NU,
it's his problem. If the Domain Manager for .NA doesn't, so be it.
There is no *TECHNICAL* reason not to open the root. There are
*COMMERCIAL* reasons not to.
el
