On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 04:47:17AM -0400, Scott W Brim wrote: > > > > I don't quite see what the difference here is to .edu for example. Isn't > > this indeed very similar to how the .edu provides a "clearly > > recognisable" label for educational services and content? > > .edu was an administrative distinction. (So was .net, originally.) The > intent here is clearly to distinguish the *use* of the name, not the > administration. The .edu is a (perpetuated) anachronism like .com. You could ask the US universities to rename to .ac.us tree - good luck! :) It's interesting how some countries sub-delegate (like the UK, to .co.uk, .ac.uk, .gov.uk, .ltd.uk, .org.uk, etc) and others do not. Doing so allows some more headroom in namespace, but not all such sub-delegations are exactly policed for validity. tim _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf