Re: TLDs & identity

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>]

Simon Higgs writes:
> Reasoning: it will happen eventually, so we might as well prepare for
> it. Plus there are two existing TLDs that already qualify - .GOV (US
> Government) & .MIL (US Military). Some might argue that they are
> insignificant organizations in the grand scheme of things (which may be
> true), but they already have TLDs.

That may be regarded in some ways as a historical accident. Were
things being done afresh today, the U.S. Government would probably
have domains under .GOV.US and under .MIL.US or something similar. The
fact that we have any organizationally limited TLDs at all is because
when the DNS was created the internet was still almost entirely a
U.S. based network with only a tiny set of outposts in the U.K.

Personally, I am not in favor of creating any new TLDs in the future
that are for the exclusive use of a single organization.  They do not
ease registration problems; they do not ease technical problems. All
they do is flatten the namespace, which I do not regard as a goal.


Perry
Speaking purely for myself and not for the IAHC