Re: AGN-DNS EARTH/USA Registry Terms and Conditions FIRST DRAFT

[Vince Wolodkin <wolodkin@digitalink.com>]

shaw wrote:
> 
> John,
> 
<SNIP>
> 
> Needless to say, it is not much of a stretch to pre-suppose that
> Alpha-3 ISO 3166 TLDs (e.g., .usa) would fall under similiar types
> of 'jurisdiction'. While this may or may not be true for .usa, I
> think you can probably imagine some of the politics involved if
> certain Alpha-3 ISO code were allocated (for example, it is hard
> to imagine that they should be allocated to anyone but a corresponding
> national entity/individual). Personally, I think it would be better
> to stay out of the politics and hold/reserve Alpha-3 ISO 3166 codes
> for future use (or non-use as the case might be).
> 
> Robert
> IAHC Member, expressing personal opinions...

I would tend to agree here as well, but call your attention to the
following:

COMOROS                                         KM      COM     174

Of course I still think .com should be an SLD under every ISO TLD. 
Though I know it wouldn't be popular, so I have pretty much given up on
it, I don't think there should be any TLDs other than ISO TLDs. 
Registries should work off of SLDs under country TLDs.  For example
.com.us and .com.ca and .com.int.

In this way, browsers and utilities could be "nationalized".  In the US,
ibm.com would be mapped to ibm.com.us.  If I wanted to go to (this is
made up) International Bank of Munich, I would go to ibm.com.de.  All
internet utilities would use environment variables or configuration to
determine what the appropriate default ISO TLD should be.

This solution would also remove quite a lot of potential trademark
disputes.  Any thoughts for my radical idea?

Vince Wolodkin