[dns-wg] SLD .gov.* within european countries

Tue Jun 12 13:43:55 CEST 2018

On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 11:39:33AM +0200,
 Antonio Prado via dns-wg <dns-wg at ripe.net> wrote 
 a message of 42 lines which said:

> does the SLD .gov.* within european countries' ccTLDs identify only
> central government bodies and not local government or other public
> administrations as well?

I guess most answers will be "it depends" :-)

For gouv.fr (gouv = gouvernement, which, in french, means only the
national one), it is only central bodies, "independant"
administrations like CNIL or ARCEP don't use it. Same thing for local
authorities .

For details (in french), see
<https://www.afnic.fr/medias/documents/Cadre_legal/Charte_de_nommage_25052018_VF.pdf>,
section 2.5.