ISO 3166-based Top Level Domain Survey

On Friday, June 19, 1998 1:07 PM, John Charles Broomfield[SMTP:jbroom at manta.outremer.com] wrote:
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@I am however convinced that a mismanaged ccTLD for a country that has a fair
@government will not remain mismanaged indefinitely, but will transform into
@a fairer system basically because of user-presure, so as more of the planet
@becomes internet-aware, more fairer the ccTLD management is going to be. I
@also think that it will generally go along the lines of nominet.
@

Let's get down to specifics. How about something closer to home?

Look at the .VI TLD in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

How do you feel it is being managed ?

Do you think that RFC 1591 rules govern the .VI TLD ?

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"The key requirement is that for each domain there be a designated manager for
supervising that domain's name space."
...
"The manager must, of course, be on the Internet."
...
"The designated manager must be equitable to all groups in the domain that
request domain names. This means that the same rules are applied to all
requests, all requests must be processed in a non-discriminatory fashion,
and academic and commercial (and other) users are treated on an equal basis.
No bias shall be shown regarding requests that may come from customers
of some other business related to the manager -- e.g., no preferential service
for customers of a particular data network provider. There can be no
requirement that a particular mail system (or other application), protocol,
or product be used."

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Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation - http://www.unir.com
1998 - The Year of the C+@