> 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.
You want to bifurcate every TLD?
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.
Everyone no doubt agrees they belong there, but they
are not, and not likely to be. So what do you do
in the meantime?
.INT? those three domains in there?
.arpa? Doesn't exist.
Neither of those are commercially used.
The largest use of the INT domain zone is by The Phone Company
and it supports a worldwide network of remote fax printing.
See www.tpc.int
The ARPA domain zone remains critical for the Internet. It
supports the IN-ADDR second level domain zone that does all
the reverse lookups and is maintained by ARIN on
behalf of all the registries. It is one of most heavily
used (commercially) TLDs as it's employed by virtually
every site report generation and monitoring product. The
current zone file is 16.8 Megabytes.
--tony
