Second level domains for individuals

[Note ripe-op at ripe.net deleted from CCs]

I strongly support Eric Wassenaar's comment about the dangers of
creating too large domains. 

It is a problem for DNS technology. 

It is a problem for registration/administration. 

Think about the situation a few years down the road: IT DOES NOT SCALE. 

DO NOT DO IT! 


The alternatives:

1) Do not register individuals.  This is only temporary relief but it
may last a few years. 

2) Register individuals in geographic subdomains, approaching postal
addresses. 

3) Register individuals in arbitrary subdomains.  One scheme proposed
was something like

	name.123456.indiv.nn

where 123456 is an arbitrarily chosen domain name.  Anyone can register
a number and start providing registration services to individuals.  The
number space is quite large such that there can be as many of these
registries as one could concievably want. 

Robert Elz <kre at munnari.OZ.AU> wrote a quite elaborate proposal for
something like this back in Oct 94.  I do not know the extent to which
it has been a success but people might want to look at the id.au domain.


My personal opinion is

1) Never register individuals under a TLD. 

2) If you want to register individuals, choose between 2 and 3 above. 

Daniel