🚀 go-pugleaf

Let us just look at the facts and come to some conclusion.

1) Europe and the rest of the world will be using 2 letter country codes
   as their upper level domains and something known as "Administrartion
   Domain Name" as their 2nd level qualifier.
2) Some domains currently in existence span many countries.

Now let us look a little down the road (say, 3 years):  X400 and RFC822/920
have a number of gateways in existence.  A piece of mail arrives from
user@seismo.css.gov and is destined for someplace in X400-land.  Do you
know what the gateway will end up doing?  It will add in a .US after
gov so the people in x400-land will know which gateway to send their mail
back to.  They will not recognize gov and edu and org and all the other
upper level domains that Arpanet has decided on.

Let us look at some international mailing examples:

1) Telephone: Whereever you are in the world (and you have direct dialing)
   and you want to call another country, you specify 4 numbers:
   a - a number(s) to get the internation exchange
   b - some number or numbers to specify the country code
   c - some number or numbers to spcify the area within the country
   d - the actual number you are calling
   Just imagine if country XYZZY said we wish our politicians to have
   a seperate b-number different from our country code since that is
   the way we like it and since we have a very valid technical need for
   it.
b) Mail: Whenever you send postal mail overseas, you have to specify a
   country at the bottom of the envelope.  Not the person's work
   organization - no matter how big or important it may be.

Europe and America have been at odds on many standards and all that has
resulted from it is nothing!  American TV's cannot be plugged into a
German outlet and a French wrench doesn't do much good on an American
bicycle.  Here we have a chance to start something new and have everyone
agree on an international standard.  Multinational domains (like Csnet
and Bitnet) will have to learn to live with upper level addresses like
csnet.US or bitnet.IL.

Let's not blow it now and make the same mistakes all over again.

Hank