[governance] DOT EDU EXTENSION

[Daniel Kalchev]

On 21.03.2014, at 12:42, 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.
> 

Living on the Balkans (and in a country which more or less is given as example of such.. behavior), I can only say this is an good idea. But it will not work, because any government will prefer a domain name in a (cc)TLD they (at least believe) control.

Duplicating the root hierarchy under each TLD is actually an extremely bad idea. Not only because it usually does not make much sense (non-English speakers find very little sense in these US-inspired abbreviations), but also there *are* technical problems with resolving names that contain tld.tld in there. Ignoring the problem does not make it go away and the only real solutions, a) to forbid local part searching (fixing most of the Internet software ever written) or b) to teach each and every Internet user to put a dot at the end of the domain name (forcing billions of people to accept they have been doing it wrong all the time) … are not going to happen.

So please, for the sake of no Balkanizing the Internet, do not advocate tld.tld anymore. Thanks. :)

Otherwise, I do support the idea to have .edu open to education institutions worldwide. 

Daniel


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