Re: ISO-3166 TLDs

[Kevin Brown <kevinbr@netcomm.ie>]

Simon,

I stand in awe. Well said. This is what I have been trying to put across
for some time.

Anyone else out there?


Kevin

At 12:12 +0300 30/12/96, Simon Higgs wrote:
>At 11:25 PM -0500 12/29/96, Scott Bradner wrote:
>
>I vote to modify the charter to this end. I do not believe it is too
>late to do this.
>
>It is important that the name space be addressed as a whole (or
>"."/root). Creating policy for one aspect of the name space and not
>another has the long term effect of fragmenting the name space
>politically and socially. This will have the unfortunate repercussion
>of creating irreversable technical fragmentation of the internet. Early
>signs of this fragmentation can be seen in the form of various firewall
>and proxy services being constructed by various international presences
>to control access. While it may not be possible to prevent this type of
>localized occurance, the I* organizations (including the IAHC) *MUST*
>present a consistent policy across the name space for *ALL*
>organizations providing registration services. In true IETF tradition,
>compliance is always voluntary, but the policy must be there or
>compliance will be non-existant.
>
>> a number of people have asked why the IAHC has not addressed the
>> assignment &/or operation of the ISO-3166 TLDs.
>>
>> from the IAHC charter
>>
>> --
>> Each registry in the
>> hierarchy is delegated authority from the registry above. A
>> number of "Top Level Domain" (TLD) registries already exist:
>> one for each country, and a small number which are
>> international (iTLD) such as .com, .org and .net.
>>
>> . . .
>>
>> IAHC is an international multi-
>> organization effort for specifying and implementing policies
>> and procedures relating to iTLD.
>> ---
>>
>> i.e. addressing the ISO-3166 TLDs is outside of the IAHC charter
>>
>> some might argue that it should not have been but in any case it is
>>
>> Scott
>
>
>Regards,
>
>Simon
>
>--
>If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.


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