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In article <1992Aug3.133259.9804@waikato.ac.nz>, john@waikato.ac.nz (John Houlker) writes:
|> We have had a request to add a new `top level' NZ domain within the
|> DNS, namely

|> 	IAC.NZ

|> meaning the New Zealand International Antarctic Centre - this is
|> for various organisations based at the IAC in Christchurch that
|> participate in Antarctic programs.  
   [...]

|> This follows the approach we have had so far in that entries within
|> NZ (with the exception of ARCHIE.NZ) represent groupings of
|> particular common types (here we have the "Antarctic Research
|> Organisation" type, which might be compared with CRI.NZ).

Bad example.  I, and most people I've talked to on the subject think the
cri.nz domain is a bad piece of naming.  I actually think this IAC proposal
has a lot more validity than cri.nz ever did.


|> Does anyone have any strong opinions about the creation of such a
|> domain?  Should we create - as discussed earlier - something like a
|> domain for research organisations (more general than CRI.NZ) and
|> use this to locate the IAC?   The research domain names suggested
|> before included such as RI.NZ, RES.NZ, so we would get something like:

What is wrong with org.nz?

There is already:
	nzdri.org.nz
	branz.org.nz

Why couldn't the cri's and other research orgs go under here with more
meaningful names than "grace" or "marc".

cheers
mark