at ietf-9 jon and i discussed the problem solved (scaling of the zone
editor function as the price of network interfaces dropped by orders of
magnitude) by reliance upon iso3166-1, and the problems created by
reliance upon iso3166-1. the economic success of .cat (unique among the
icann 1st and 2nd round gtld projects) and the orders of magnitude
growth of catalan (as measured by google) as the detected or announced
language of network accessible content are facts. [note, as cto of the
.cat project i'd no way of knowing either outcome would arise.]
i remain of the view that language and culture, and fate independence
from the vgrs business model are sufficient to expand on the 1591 set of
namespaces.
-e
On 10/20/14 3:09 PM, manning bill wrote:
FNC “reserved” .gov and .mil for the US.
And Postel was right… there was/is near zero reason to technically
extend/expand the number of TLDs.
/bill
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On 20October2014Monday, at 12:19, Sandra Murphy <sa...@tislabs.com> wrote:
By the time of RFC1591, March 1994, authored by Jon Postel, said:
GOV - This domain was originally intended for any kind of government
office or agency. More recently a decision was taken to
register only agencies of the US Federal government in this
domain.
No reference as to who, when, or how.
That same RFC says:
In the Domain Name System (DNS) naming of computers there is a
hierarchy of names. The root of system is unnamed. There are a set
of what are called "top-level domain names" (TLDs). These are the
generic TLDs (EDU, COM, NET, ORG, GOV, MIL, and INT), and the two
letter country codes from ISO-3166. It is extremely unlikely that
any other TLDs will be created.
Gotta love that last sentence, yes?
--Sandy
On Oct 20, 2014, at 12:50 PM, Fred Baker (fred) <f...@cisco.com> wrote:
On Oct 19, 2014, at 5:05 AM, Matthew Petach <mpet...@netflight.com> wrote:
Wondering if some of the long-time list members
can shed some light on the question--why is the
.gov top level domain only for use by US
government agencies? Where do other world
powers put their government agency domains?
With the exception of the cctlds, shouldn't the
top-level gtlds be generically open to anyone
regardless of borders?
Would love to get any info about the history
of the decision to make it US-only.
Thanks!
Matt
The short version is that that names were a process. In the beginning, hosts
simply had names. When DNS came into being, names were transformed from
“some-name” to “some-name.ARPA”. A few of what we now all gTLDs then came into
being - .com, .net, .int, .mil, .gov, .edu - and the older .arpa names quickly
fell into disuse.
ccTLDs came later.
I’ve been told that the reason God was able to create the earth in seven days
was that He had no installed base. We do. The funny thing is that you’ll see a
reflection of the gTLDs underneath the ccTLDs of a number of countries - .ac,
.ed, and the like.
