RFC 2240 (rfc2240) - Page 1 of 7
A Legal Basis for Domain Name Allocation
Alternative Format: Original Text Document
Network Working Group O. Vaughan
Request for Comments: 2240 Vaughan Enterprises
Category: Informational November 1997
A Legal Basis for Domain Name Allocation
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does
not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this
memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1997). All Rights Reserved.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
2. Overview of the domain space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
3. Possible solutions to name exhaustion . . . . . . . . . . . 3
4. Proposed creation of new SLDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
4.1 The world is not flat so why should domains be? . . . . . . 4
4.2 The case for legal names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4.3 Allocation of legal SLDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4.4 Allocation of miscellaneous SLDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4.5 Identifiers in non-ASCII languages . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
5. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
6. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
7. Authors' Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
8. Full Copyright Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1. Introduction
The purpose of this memo is to focus discussion on the particular
problems with the exhaustion of the top level domain space in the
Internet and the possible conflicts that can occur when multiple
organisations are vying for the same name. No proposed solutions in
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