RFC1816 on U.S. Government Internet Domain Names

"Joyce K. Reynolds" <jkrey@isi.edu> Thu, 03 August 1995 19:00 UTC

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        RFC 1816:

        Title:      U.S. Government Internet Domain Names
        Author:     Federal Networking Council
        Date:       August 1995
        Mailbox:    execdir@fnc.gov
        Pages:      8
        Characters: 17,979
        Obsoletes:  1811

        URL:        ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1816.txt


This memo provides an update and clarification to RFC 1811.  This
document describes the registration policies for the top-level domain
".GOV".  Thus far, Federal Agencies and their subsidiaries have
registered without any guidance.  This has resulted in multiple
registrations for Federal Agencies and naming schemes that do not
facilitate responsiveness to the public.  This document fixes this by
restricting registrations to coincide with the approved structure of
the US government.  The document cited, FIPS 95-1, provides a standard
recognized structure into which domain registrations for .GOV can be
fit.  This policy is exactly comparable to that for the top-level
domains.  The IANA requires that an organization/country apply for and
get a 2 letter code from ISO/ITU (e.g., US for United States) for
additional top-level registration.  As a side effect, this reduces the
number of .GOV level registrations and reduces the workload on the
Internic.

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