[ga] Do we need TLDs at all?

[gavin.stokes@autodesk.com]

The question about name servers was merely technical.  I was wondering if the still-enforced domains mil, gov, and edu are handled by separate master name servers, and whether this kind of separation might provide a roadblock to totally free-form domain names.  I guess not, as long as those domains were still restricted.

Gavin

-----Original Message-----
From: William X. Walsh [mailto:william@userfriendly.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 12:18 AM
To: gavin.stokes@autodesk.com
Cc: ga@dnso.org
Subject: Re: [ga] Do we need TLDs at all?


Hello gavin,

Tuesday, April 10, 2001, 11:10:36 PM, gavin.stokes@autodesk.com wrote:

> Maybe this is a technical question, but the collision discussion prompted it:

> Is there a reason that we can't have any old string as the last component of a domain name?  Does the administration of various name servers require a finite collection of TLDs?

> If the intended meaning of many TLDs is not being enforced (or isn't enforceable), why have a limited set of them?

I couldn't agree more.  ICANN's approach to namespace expansion is
much too slow for my tastes, as is its focus on building a restricted
TLD structure.

The DNS is not a directory service.  It was never intended to be.

-- 
Best regards,
 William                            mailto:william@userfriendly.com


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