Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed?

[Barry Shein <bzs () world std com>]

On October 1, 1998 at 11:08 sjsobol () nacs net (Steven J. Sobol) wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 03:22:55AM -0400, Barry Shein wrote:
>
> > No, a typical method of judgement used where something won't likely be
> > 100% one way or the other is the "preponderance of evidence".
>
> Agreed, and I don't think you have that, either!

That's nice, but lacking any review process you're just twiddling bits
in public (and so am I, not my point.)

> > More importantly, in the case of a gTLD, does it serve any useful
> > purpose for which it was issued, overall?
> >
> > Since the examples you've given don't seem to me to be entities
> > organized within the Kingdom of Tonga, even if they're not porn
> > sites*, what purpose is being served by keeping .to in the root
> > servers?
>
> It's already been pointed out that there IS no one-to-one mapping of
> domain names to geographical areas. What's your point?

Please. There may be no one-to-one mapping, but surely there is some
reason we adopted the ISO two-letter codes as TLDs.

Why must these discussions always devolve into nihilism?


> > * Porn per se was never the touchstone issue
>
> OK - I am glad we agree on this.
>
> -- 
>
> Anyone who spams me will be subject to torture by Jake,
> my killer attack hedgehog, and/or Lizzy and Junior, my man-eating iguanas.

-- 
        -Barry Shein

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