On October 1, 1998 at 11:08 sjsobol@nacs.net (Steven J. Sobol) wrote:
On Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 03:22:55AM -0400, Barry Shein wrote:
No, a typical method of judgement used where something won't likely be 100% one way or the other is the "preponderance of evidence".
Agreed, and I don't think you have that, either!
That's nice, but lacking any review process you're just twiddling bits in public (and so am I, not my point.)
More importantly, in the case of a gTLD, does it serve any useful purpose for which it was issued, overall?
Since the examples you've given don't seem to me to be entities organized within the Kingdom of Tonga, even if they're not porn sites*, what purpose is being served by keeping .to in the root servers?
It's already been pointed out that there IS no one-to-one mapping of domain names to geographical areas. What's your point?
Please. There may be no one-to-one mapping, but surely there is some reason we adopted the ISO two-letter codes as TLDs. Why must these discussions always devolve into nihilism?
* Porn per se was never the touchstone issue
OK - I am glad we agree on this.
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