Re: "int" domain

[shaw <ROBERT.SHAW@ITU.CH>]

>     I want to know about the  "int" domain, like eu.int as the European 
>     Union. Who authenticate and who can get the domain name?
>     Are there some official document about that?
>     I think that kind of domain name was not exist some months ago.   
>     
>     --------------------------------------------------------- 
>     Satoshi Murakami
>     Information Industry Department,

.int is a highly restrictive TLD intended for 'stateless' international 
intergovernmental treaty organizations or internet infrastructure databases.
The current guidelines are in RFC 1591 (ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1591.txt).
A draft .int policy document which will undergo at least one more revision 
following further recent legal input is available at:

http://www.itu.int/intreg/int-policy.html. 

The draft in its current form has been reviewed favorably by the Internet
Architecture Board. It'll be run by them again when the new modifications
are made.

Currently, registration in .int is done by IANA but the plan is for ITU to
take over management of it as soon we work out mutually acceptable policy,
etc. It is currently not a high priority issue as one can imagine...

Robert
IAHC member, no disclaimer needed...