Re: ISO 3166 recomendations.

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 5:21 PM -0500 12/23/96, D. Chiodo wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Dec 1996, Simon Higgs wrote:
>
> > At 1:20 PM +0300 12/23/96, Kevin Brown wrote:
> >
> > You want what? (ROOTFLMAO)
> >
> > :-)
> >
> > You'd think they'd have figured this out by now.
>
> I'm not entirely sure who you are responding to, since the writer of the
> message that you "replied" to, didnt indicate a "want" for anything.
>

Actually, I think you missed 101 newdom. The whole issue over
governance and accountability of the "." administration has been
skillfully avoided over and over again. Noone has been able to resolve
this issue and so the IAHC exists. Technically IANA hold the root, but
Jon has seen fit to set up the IAHC to obtain input and concensus from
the community. Having said that, IAHC's focus is very narrow.

> He did, however, albeit slightly unclearly, make a point that many people
> such as Alternic have been ignoring. There can be only one "." if the
> Internet is to continue as the useful and viable means of communication it
> has begun as. Many dispute this fact, but they are nonetheles wrong.
>

You're obviously not familiar with the experimental root zone handed
out by AlterNIC. It does not fragment the namespace. It just added the
experimental zones to the existing root. Users either get the IANA root
or the IANA root with the experimental TLDs. That's not fragmentation.

Root64 is fragmentation.

> > > If they set there own policy on DNS, why don't they set there own
>policy on
> > > IP space? Either someone controls  . and you have to agree on who
>get under
> > >  or not. Yo cannot have two seperate classes of TLDs. No country owns the
> > > Internet, and no country own the IP space, and why should any one country
> > > have any policy , and be allowed under . ?
> > >
> > > Kevin
> > >
> > > At 2:50 +0300 21/12/96, Simon Higgs wrote:
> > > >At 10:34 AM -0800 12/20/96, Rick H. Wesson wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> I believe at the newdom bof the AD's both stated that the IAHC
> > > >> and the newdom bof should not say *ANYTHING* about management
> > > >> of the ISO 3166 TLDs.
> > > >>
> > > >> Suggestions should not be made about a management area that
> > > >> no one on this committe has the perview over.
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > >No, I'm actually glad they did this.
> > > >
> > > >The recommendations to the ISO-3166 domains are spot on. They are just
> > > >recommendations tho'. It's up to the individual countries to set their
> > > >own policy. I would expect most free market countries to adhere to
> > > >them, and those countries with more restrictive regimes are going to do
> > > >whatever they want anyway. The point is that there is a consistant
> > > >reference base for the ISO-3166 countries to follow if they want to.
> > > >The mistake would be not making these recommendations at all.
> > > >


Simon

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