On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 13:17 +1200, Michael Newbery wrote:
1. Delegated authority. I.e., choose a few 2LDs and the owners of those got to do the work of administering them. Any rules they chose to impose were their decision, subject to the rfc constraints and some guidelines. The DNS was designed to be a delegated hierarchy.
And govt.nz is a good example of this desirable controlled delegation. While I haven't read the Bank's application, I suspect that is one of the reasons they want it, not technical, to a degree not even marketing, or Yellow Pages substitution. Banks are different, they have exemptions, AFAIK, from the narrow focus of other "shareholder value" driven entities. They are *allowed* to consider the "public good" of their activities and not be sued. Thus a delegated & controlled domain for them possibly makes sense. Utilities are different too, but that's more about rates... I imagine the govt.nz wouldn't be too happy to find ird.government.nz resolving... as for army.military.nz... At which point does gov.nz, govern.nz, mcgovern.nz, etc. confuse users? I'm not certain I would support bank.nz, but I wouldn't accept it's existence as a reason to dispose of 2lds. Meantime, why doesn't the Banker's Association contact Kirk and start delegating national.bank.co.nz, direct.bank.co.nz and bypass the bureucracy and delay? Perhaps they have...
Michael Newbery IP Architect TelstraClear Limited
Thanks for the information Michael. Hamish. -- A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. -Thomas Paine - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog