[governance] DOT EDU EXTENSION

[Roland Perry]

In message <86FFEF2F-E478-477E-82B9-64292FA4FA68 at hserus.net>, at 
18:13:37 on Fri, 21 Mar 2014, Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net> 
writes
>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.

What's your impression on how they managed to get that through the 
approval process. Does it predate the current rule, have some US 
affiliation, or something else?

>
>> 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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