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Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies?
From: Bill Woodcock <woody () pch net>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 09:10:48 +0800
On Oct 21, 2014, at 6:09 AM, manning bill <bmanning () isi edu> wrote:
there was/is near zero reason to technically extend/expand the number of TLDs.
Equally, no reason not to.
On 20October2014Monday, at 12:19, Sandra Murphy <sandy () tislabs com> wrote:By the time of RFC1591, March 1994, authored by Jon Postel, said: GOV - This domain was originally intended for any kind of government office or agency. More recently a decision was taken to register only agencies of the US Federal government in this domain. No reference as to who, when, or how.
Passive voice considered harmful. -Bill
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