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Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies?
From: Doug Barton <dougb () dougbarton us>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 21:03:49 -0700
On 10/20/14 7:47 PM, Eric Brunner-Williams wrote:
having written the technical portion of winning proposal to ntia for the .us zone, i differ.
The plan I outlined was discussed about 2 years after Neustar took over management, and TMK was never actually discussed with Neustar.
as i recall, having done the research, in the year prior to the ntia's tender some six people held some 40% of the major metro area subordinate namespaces. to my chagrin, relieved by a notice of termination days before my stock in the company vested, the winner adopted a "orange-black" model, deprecating the namespace's existing hierarchical registration model for a flat registration model.
Yes, but the locality-based name space still exists. I used to hold some names under it, but gave them up when I moved out of state. Meanwhile, several states actively use their name space. But ...
the registration process model for .us is dissimilar to the registration process models of .edu, .mil and .gov, as are the contractors to the government.
... none of this is relevant to the proposal at hand. Neustar manages the domain on behalf of the USG. There is nothing preventing them from changing the way it is used, and the 10 year period I proposed takes runout of existing contracts into account (since EDU, GOV, and MIL would need continued operation during that period anyway).
Doug
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- Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies?, (continued)
- Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies? Eric Brunner-Williams (Oct 20)
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- Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies? Larry Sheldon (Oct 20)
- Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies? Doug Barton (Oct 20)
- Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies? shawn wilson (Oct 20)
- Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies? Mark Andrews (Oct 20)
- Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies? Tomas Lynch (Oct 20)
- Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies? Doug Barton (Oct 20)
- Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies? shawn wilson (Oct 20)
- Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies? shawn wilson (Oct 20)
- Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies? Doug Barton (Oct 20)
- Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies? Eric Brunner-Williams (Oct 20)
- Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies? Doug Barton (Oct 21)