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List:       namedroppers
Subject:    Domain requirements / must country be toplevel domain?
From:       Robert Elton Maas <REM  ()  MIT-MC>
Date:       1984-05-15 23:40:00
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In-reply-to:ESTEFFERUD@USC-ECL

I don't see any reason why several countries can't get together and
form a consortium for the purpose of naming authority. For example,
several small nations in a compact geographic area (Caribbean islands,
or west African republics) might not be able to afford a toplevel
naming authority in each nation and a nameserver, so might want to
pool their resources. Or several nations allowing open trans-national
data flow (USA & Canada & England for example) might establish a joint
naming authority to allow multi-national companies in those countries
to conduct internal business without regard to national borders and to
allow names within the single company to avoid the pain of having to
factor all names according to country of location (which would
prohibit any subdomain such as a company-department from being in more
than one country).

Thus perhaps the default should be that each nation is granted a
toplevel domain which it is solely responsible for, but consortiums of
nations may merge their name domains into new consortium-toplevel
domains if they all agree to it.

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