[governance] DOT EDU EXTENSION

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Funnily enough it isn't unknown for foreign educational institutions to get themselves a .edu .. for example pes.edu is a small university in Bangalore.

--srs (iPad)

> On 21-Mar-2014, at 17:12, Roland Perry <roland at internetpolicyagency.com> wrote:
> 
> In message <1746728927.24766.1395355101321.JavaMail.www at wwinf1n33>, at 23:38:21 on Thu, 20 Mar 2014, Jean-Louis FULLSACK <jlfullsack at orange.fr> writes
>> In other words
>> 
>> .edu is a "common good" ... for the US
> 
> Perhaps now is the time for it [.edu] to be thrown open for global multistakeholder governance[1], alongside IANA.
> 
> nb. I am not suggesting the same be necessarily done right away for .mil and .gov, because these appear to have a much more defacto legacy as "The US military" and "The US Government".
> 
> Although eventually both of those might perhaps be moved to .mil.us and .gov.us in order to conform with the rest-of-the-globe standard for such things.
> 
> Then we could have urls like yourministry.yourcountry.gov, rather than them being Balkanised across the ccTLDs.
> 
> [1] That governance could decide to keep the status quo of
>   "US EDUcation", but it should at least be debated.
> -- 
> Roland Perry
> 
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