[wg-review] Names Council

[Eric Dierker <ERIC@HI-TEK.COM>]

The following are from 1984.
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc0920.txt




         COM  =  Commercial, any commercial related domains meeting the
                 second level requirements.

 While the initial domain name "ARPA" arises from the history of the
   development of this system and environment, in the future most of the

   top level names will be very general categories like "government",
   "education", or "commercial".  The motivation is to provide an
   organization name that is free of undesirable semantics.

The administration of a domain requires controlling the assignment of
   names within that domain and providing access to the names and name
   related information (such as addresses) to users both inside and
   outside the domain.

Minimum Size:

      The domain must be of at least a minimum size.  There is no
      requirement to form a domain because some set of hosts is above
      the minimum size.

      Top level domains must be specially authorized.  In general, they
      will only be authorized for domains expected to have over 500
      hosts.

      The general guideline for a second level domain is that it have
      over 50 hosts.  This is a very soft "requirement".  It makes sense

      that any major organization, such as a university or corporation,
      be allowed as a second level domain -- even if it has just a few
      hosts.


Taking historical perspective to the extreme, we are only talking 16
years here, it would seem that the "Old Proposal" realy did not want
governance at all but free enterprize to run the domain business. Do a
good and responsible job and you stay in business, don't and you go out
of business.  I think it would have worked had competition been fostered
rather than regulated monolopy.

At this point in time it looks like the existing legal structure was
invisioned to handle disputes.

Either the internet has advanced so far as to ignore these plans or we
should try to adjust them to today.

I am finding difficulty in seeing any benefit to this pseudo regulatory
body.  It seems like the Registries and Registrars are doing exactly as
they please, and in general that is working out.

So I think the NC should just be like an advisory club, like
http://www.open-rsc.org/.

Just some ideas.

Sincerely,

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