Re: [apps-discuss] [taugh.com-standards] Comments on draft-levine-orgboundary

["John Levine" <[e-mail]>]

>>   aaa.foo.on.ca and bbb.foo.on.ca are the same entity
>> 
>>   aaa.toronto.on.ca and bbb.toronto.on.ca are not
>
>To be clear if slightly pedantic about the example, the current
>registration rules don't permit the first case any more.  Also as I
>understand it, case (2) sort of depends on what you mean by "same
>entity".  Everything of the form [municipality].[province].ca under
>the current rules must be a department of the municipality.  You can't
>register (for instance) somecompany.toronto.on.ca.  This is under the
>CIRA rules for the delegation of [municipality].[province].ca.

That may be the current rule, but I know someone whose domain is
<something>.montreal.qc.ca.  There are of course plenty of other
ccTLDs with irregular registration boundaries, e.g., trieste.it is a
geographic delegation point while triste.it is a registration.

>Now, none of that obviates your basic point, which is that this
>pattern is still possible.  But that argument, it seems to me, leads
>almost inexorably to the conclusion that you almost certainly need to
>descend the tree;

You can use my grosse hackque with the wildcards, where the closest
encloser rule finds the deepest relevant delegation point.

R's,
John