Date: Fri, 2 Apr 93 13:17:21 +0200 From: mfendt@eso.org I have a question or better need a clarification about the report of the DNS working group (on the 14 Ripe meeting in Prag, 25-27.1.1993) One of the topics was the "propper" top-level domain of multinational organizations, like European Parliament. (case of the day) The suggestions were: .org: rejected because it is not a North American organization. My questions are the following: Is there anywhere mentioned that .org top-level domain is only for North America organisations? Or does this rejection have any other reasons? The solution choosen (again for the European Parliament) was using the country top level domain and have the name reserved in every (member?) country. This solution implies for me that any European Institution (which has a similiar status like the European Parliament) should follow that roule (or would it be acceptable that other institutions would achieve different solutions? I hope so,because I hate changing names :-)) Sorry to buzzz with my 0.02$ wirth, but the sulution selected for the European Parlament is a clear misshap. EC meens something above countries so there is no reason to declare it _under_ country codes. A clean way to do it would be to declare such organization in town/country where it has its HQ. For 'migrating HQ' organization may sellect a place. On the other hand; a name is just a name, who cares. -Rafal