Re: The view from my window

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

Simon Higgs allegedly said:
> 
> At 12:33 PM -0500 12/26/96, Paul Ezra Kautz wrote:
> 
> > People are resistant to change - remember how some COM-users feel about
> > losing their domain? Fortunately, I think the American TLDs (GOV, EDU,
> > MIL) won't threaten to sue as long as we give them enough time.
> >
> 
> This could also be temporarily patched in BIND. All .EDU queries that
> fail would get .US appended to them and retried.

Absolute nonesense, Simon.  This requires replacing resolvers all 
across the internet -- something like that simply doesn't happen 
overnight, and simply cannot be done by fiat.

> > There is a place for exclusive registration - the second level.
> >
> 
> Ah... but the namespace is recursive.
> 
> "There are no requirements on subdomains of top-level domains beyond
> the requirements on higher-level domains themselves.  That is, the
> requirements in this memo are applied recursively." - RFC1591

However, shared tlds break that model immediately.  So I would rely 
on it too much.

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