RE: [ga] is there any factual information about how many SLDs for individual als or organizations exist in cc?

["Cade,Marilyn S - LGA" <mcade@att.com>]

Elisabeth, this was extremely helpful. Thanks!

Marilyn

-----Original Message-----
From: Elisabeth Porteneuve [mailto:Elisabeth.Porteneuve@cetp.ipsl.fr]
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 1:07 PM
To: mcade@att.com
Cc: ga@dnso.org
Subject: Re: [ga] is there any factual information about how many SLDs
for individu als or organizations exist in cc?



Marilyn,

I read you with pleasure.

The ccTLD is a very diverse group.

Only 88 of them run whois.
Only 98 of them answered ICANN call for payment fiscal year 1999-2000.
Only 95 of them at most ever wrote an email to our mailing lists.
And please do not forget than American Embassy in Kazakhstan considered
that the folks from ccTLD Registry there are not good enough to give them
visa to Los Angeles last November ...

There is as many naming schemes as ccTLD Registries ... you
have individuals and organizations mixed up with everything else 
-- in dot com like -- when Registries decided to run it this way.

The naming policies are evolving over time, the ccTLD adjusting
to their local Internet community needs, or business needs.
I made a survey of 11 European Registries in 1999, at that time
two or three of them had an SLD for individuals. Some of them had
a rich naming schemes, far beyond classical .com/.org/.edu.

At the origin of Internet (circa mid 1980's), all ccTLD had a flat
scheme. Then some build up a naming schemes according to local needs.
Later we may observe two tendencies, one from restricted
policies to more open, one from open to more restricted.
There are many advantages and disadvantages in each scheme, and
the vox populi changing over time.

Let me take French exemple. We started with flat scheme, it lasted
several years, then we needed to cope with problems, and find out
a way to accomodate everybody, and set out priorities. Our scheme
is user driven.
Under .fr we have a naming scheme with labels, provinding a guarantee 
to end users or consumers. For exemple only Medical Doctors authorised 
to work in France may register under medecin.fr.
Similar for some other professions. Also for products for which quality
is of importance. The non for profit associations have an SLD .asso.fr
(the conditions to set up an not for profit in France are very simple,
no lawyer necessary, and it costs approx 40 USD -- there is more than
one million of them).
The individuals are under .nom.fr, it allows us for an easy whois scheme
respecting privacy of individuals in France.

And yes, we also have an open SLD, .com.fr, where you may take any 
name (under some minimal conditions, French residency or incorporation
are mandatory).

See you in Melbourne,

Elisabeth

> From owner-ga@dnso.org Sun Mar  4 16:20 MET 2001
> Message-ID: <21917FA62B667E4FBE52007E20BF17416FD41C@lganj0se2.lga.att.com>
> From: "Cade,Marilyn S - LGA" <mcade@att.com>
> To: "'Marc Schneiders'" <marc@venster.nl>,
>         Joop Teernstra
> 	 <terastra@terabytz.co.nz>
> Cc: ga@dnso.org
> Subject: [ga] is there any factual information about how many SLDs for
individu
> 	als or organizations exist in cc?
> Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 10:11:33 -0500 
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> 
> 
> Does anyone know how many ccTLDs have an individual and an .org SLD? Is
> there any useful understanding that could be taken from a short survey of
> same? 
> 
> I would expect a lot of growth in the ccTLDs over the next few years, and
> many people are likely to prefer to be in a country code... (in the
country
> they live in, for instance.)
> 
> I KNOW, I KNOW.  "not all".  You guys/gals don't need to send me 25
separate
> messages explaining that I am wrong and that many will want a generic...
> (I've got that picture, too.)  Save the e-postage. (that was a little
> sarcasm.)
> 
> :-) 
> 
> Marilyn
> 
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