Re: Clarification please (was Re: Is stuttering the price topay?)

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 9:49 AM -0500 12/31/96, Albert Tramposch wrote:

> Simon Higgs wrote:
> >Can someone from the IAHC clarify the following paragraph:
> >          Addition of .tm.<iso3166-code>
> >          IAHC recommends that the functional name .tm.<iso3166-code>,
> >          or a local language equivalent thereof, be added to the
> >          functional name set documented in section 6.1.1 of this
> >          document, above, as described more fully in section 0 of
> >          this document (see below).
> >Does this mean literally .TM.<iso3166-code>, or
>.<tm-category>.<iso3166-code>?
>
>
> This means ".tm.us", ".tm.ca", etc., along the lines of ".tm.fr", which
> already exists, and works well to my understanding.
>

I think this is flawed. I'd much prefer to see the use of

<domain>.<tm-category>.<iso3166-code>

because it would allow much better local flexibility. Each country
could put their own TM codes under their ISO3166 TLD and satisfy their
localized category scheme. Forcing all of this under the .TM domain
means 4LDs. That's just not as efficiently as 3LDs.

Then again, they could all be 2LDs if you went with the INTA schedule as TLDs.

;)

Regards,

Simon

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