On 10/19/2014 at 8:13 AM Jimmy Hess wrote: |[snip] |So then, why aren't .EDU and .GOV just allowed to continue to exist |but a community decision made to require whichever registry will be |contracted to manage .GOV to accept registrations from _all_ |government entities regardless of nationality ? | |In otherwords, rejection of the idea that a registry operating GTLD |namespace can be allowed to impose overly exclusive "eligibility |criteria" ============= I'd rather see .gov (and by implication, .edu) usage phased out and replaced by country-specific domain names (e.g. fed.us). imo, the better way to fix an anachronism is not to bend the rules so the offenders are not so offensive, but to bring the offenders into compliance with the current rules.