--On Monday, 24 July, 2000 11:56 -0400 Andre-John Mas
<ajmas(_at_)uforce(_dot_)com> wrote:
If you read the following RFC:
http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1591.txt you will
see there are limitations to which the USA has privilege. Has
this document
been revised?
No, although ICANN has been working on sections of it. See
their web site (http://www.icann.org/) for more information on
this and other DNS policy and administrative issues (in which
the IETF is _not_, as an organization, involved).
Incidentally, the relevant defining (policy) document for the US
domain is RFC 1480. More information can be obtained at
http://www.nic.us/, which also contains current-practice updates
to RFC 1480.
The various domain surveys routinely show the US domain as among
the largest half-dozen country code domains --I think recently
about third-- and it tends to run a much closer ratio of
registered names to actual, distinct, hosts than those domains
which have become overwhelmed registrations of many product or
company names which point to a much smaller number of web
servers).
That information is obviously at some variance with the amount
of misinformation posted on this subject to the IETF list in the
last 24 hours.
But, more generally:
* If someone has issues or suggestions about general
domainnaming policy, take them to ICANN. They are not
engineering issues, and the IETF isn't involved.
* If someone has issues with how the US Domain is managed,
administered, or delegated internally, I'd recommend discussing
them with the US Domain Administrator, after reviewing the
material on the web page cited above. Again, the IETF isn't
involved and this mailing list isn't an especially useful
discussion forum.
john