Re: [ga] Status of the Review Task Force

["L Gallegos" <jandl@jandl.com>]

On 1 Sep 2001, at 21:40, William S. Lovell wrote:

> 
> 
> L Gallegos wrote:
> 
> > On 1 Sep 2001, at 10:07, William S. Lovell wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > It is quite useful. When wearing my attorney hat, I often have to
> > > search out data on legal, administrative, organizational, etc.,
> > > matters in various states, and so far as I have seen, every U. S.
> > > state has web sites under the .us ccTLD and, at least in Oregon, a
> > > lot of business that used to have to be carried out with hard
> > > copies and snail mail can now be done on line.  There's also a lot
> > > of Federal stuff, although many agencies, such as the Patent
> > > Office, have their own .gov sites.  Credit should be given to the
> > > .us domain operators, and to those making good use of that ccTLD.
> > >
> >
> > There is no quarrel with those domain operators who are doing a good
> > job.  The problem lies with those who are not.  Try to obtain a .us
> > domain and tell me how you fare.
> 
> Dunno, Leah.  Maybe one has to be a government agency of some
> kind, since that's what the .us is for, as I understand it. The
> intended value to the public is not as a TLD at which to get a domain,
> but rather a TLD at which one can find useful sites.

Actaully, anyone can get a .us domain.  It's the heirarchy that is 
the key.  It's just that some of the domain administrators are not 
doing such a wonderful job and many have applied and waited 
months with no reply.  That's what I was referring to.

Leah

> 
> Bill
> 
> >
> >
> > Leah
> 
> --
> 
> 
> The URLs for Best Practices:
> DNSO Citation:
> http://www.dnso.org/dnso/gaindex.html
> (Under "Other Information Documents"; "August 2001:
> Proposal for Best Practices for the DNSO GA." This
> page also includes much else about the DNSO.)
> Part I:
> http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20010813.GA-BestPractices.html
> Part II:
> http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20010813.GA-BP-flowchart.pdf
> (Access to the .pdf file requires the Adobe Acrobat Reader,
> available for free down load at
> http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.)
> Part III:
> http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20010813.GA-BP-PartIII.html
> 
> 


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