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Re: [faoc] Re: xTLD BoF and mailing list
- To: Evi Nemeth <evi@rupertsberg.cs.colorado.edu>
- Subject: Re: [faoc] Re: xTLD BoF and mailing list
- From: Don Heath <heath@isoc.org>
- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 09:08:03 -0500
- Cc: Milton Mueller <mueller@syr.edu>, Toru Takahashi <toru@tokyonet.ad.jp>, apia-member@apia.org, faoc@teckla.apnic.net, ap-tld@apnic.net, dom-wg@nic.ad.jp, chon@cosmos.kaist.ac.kr, jun@wide.ad.jp, registrar@overseas.co.tw, gtld@melbourneit.co.au, mao@cnnic.net.cn, royfang@pcdc.net, ckp@nca.or.kr, admin@namehost.com, info@globalnames.net, hongde@gbnic.gb.com.cn, info@capital.net.au, arakawa@email.co.jp, terasima@tokyonet.ad.jp, POC <poc@gtld-mou.org>, Jon Postel <postel@isi.edu>, CORE@core.gtld-mou.org, Chapters <isoc-chapters@isoc.org>, alan@connected.org, tomg <tomg@gablegroup.com>, Greg Hurst <ghurst@link.freedom.com>, John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>, Vint Cerf <vcerf@mci.net>, "David W. Maher" <dwmaher@ibm.net>, Bob Shaw <robert.shaw@itu.int>, Geoff Huston <gih@telstra.net>, Albert Tramposch <0002082489@mcimail.com>, evi@rupertsberg.cs.colorado.edu
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At 06:32 PM 2/11/98 -0700, Evi Nemeth wrote:
>nice message.
>
>has any serious thought been given to just eliminating all gtlds
>and making all registrations occur under the country codes. give
>the us domain to the dept of commerce to administer, give folks a
>year or two to change their letterhead, advertising, etc. to say
>foo.com.us or foo.co.uk or ... instead of foo.com. probably need
>to give the dept of commerce in the us some help in the transition
>and some guidelines for using hierarchy.
sigh
Yes, there was serious consideration. Frankly, it is the answer; but,
it just can't be so. The "cat is out of the bag" as they say.
There really was considerable thought about how to do this. It's why I
started with a "sigh" and will end with a
sigh
See you at INET'98, Geneva 21-24, July 98
<http://www.isoc.org/inet98/>
