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Re: Shared TLD's: DEAD (Re: First come/First served)

At 2:14 PM -0500 11/19/96, Bob Allisat wrote:

> Kent replied:
> >Bob, you have it exactly backward, of course.  It's the exclusive
> >ownership iTLD model that is conceptually flawed, and impossible to
> >implement reasonably in a dispersed and decentralized network
> >environment like the Internet.
>
>  There it stands. A clear and
>  prescient choice. Either TLD's
>  are exclusive or Shared. There
>  is no way we can have half and
>  half.

draft-higgs-tld-cat specifically addresses this issue. It provides a
framework at the top level to delegate shared/specialized/private TLD's
based upon their individual function and purpose. .GOV & .MIL are
private TLD's. .COM may become shared. .INT is specialized. This draft
creates three classes of TLD in order for this to happen.


Simon

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