RE: [wg-c] Excellent suggestion from slashdot -- apparently not in 10-23 report

[Andrew Dalgleish <andrewd@axonet.com.au>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	James Love [SMTP:love@cptech.org]
> Sent:	Saturday, April 01, 2000 02:13
> To:	megacz@cmu.edu
> Cc:	wg-c@dnso.org
> Subject:	Re: [wg-c] Excellent suggestion from slashdot --
> apparently not in 10-23 report
> 
> I would support the general thrust of Adam Megacz's comment.  However,
> there should be space for exceptions.  .gov, .int, .edu and other
> restricted domains are among the types of exceptions I am talking
> about,
> as well as the .usbanks (the US FDIC proposed), or the .union proposal
> (is .naa one of these?), and some others I have heard about but which
> have not yet surfaced, in both the commerical and non-commerical (and
> mixed) areas.  
[Andrew Dalgleish]  

What I don't understand is why we need TLDs in the form ".xxbanks"
(where xx is the country code).

Surely this should be handled under the relevant ccTLD?
(such that ".usbanks" becomes ".banks.us").

This would allow each country to regulate their own segment of the
domain name space, according to local needs and regulations.

Keep all country-specific domains out of the global name-space.
(This applies to *all* countries, not just the USA.)

Regards,
Andrew Dalgleish