Re: [dns-wg] Elimination of 2nd level ccTLD domain names, dna@nic.net.sg

[Brad Knowles <]

At 10:40 AM +0200 2004-10-21, Hank Nussbacher wrote:

>  Are other countries considering following the same path?
	Other countries in Europe already do this, at least including 
Belgium, Netherlands, France, and Germany.  Specific examples I can 
recall off the top of my head include skynet.be and mind.be, 
xs4all.nl, wanadoo.fr, and siemens.de.  Belgium and the Netherlands 
may be small, but France and Germany are not.

	Within Europe, I don't think that this policy is unusual.


	Nevertheless, given the size of the population of the expanded 
EU, I don't see how this kind of scheme will scale well to handle 
potentially hundreds of millions of people.  I don't think you 
necessarily need to go to a US-style city.county.state.us mechanism, 
but I think a three-level domain scheme would definitely be advisable.

	Given the problems that some ccTLD operators are already having 
with their SLD scheme they currently have to live with and how this 
is making their life unpleasant in trying to manage the huge and very 
flat ccTLD they already have, I cannot see why people would want to 
compound this problem by at least a couple of orders of magnitude.

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