Re: DNS under o=Internet

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> Reading Christian's  proposal leads me  to  think that now I
> can go ask the IANA  the  give me a  name. An "f.net"  Domain name can
> allocated  from  the  IANA. 

Well, to be picky about it, I think you would go to the DCA (specifically
it's agent the DDN NIC) since, while the IANA (or the successor-to-IANA)
is the registration authority for the Internet as a whole, it has
effectively delegated registration authority for the existing 
top-level DNS domains to the DDN NIC.

> Do you  think  I  could  ask the   IANA toallocate a Directory Name
> for FNET

No. The IANA doesn't have the authority to be the registry for Directory
names. In my opinion, nobody does. Directory names are derived from
external registries algorithmically, not assigned/allocated (except
for those parts of the tree where the Directory is the registry,
of course).

> This may not cause such  a problem for  FNET, but  let see
> what  could happen if   another national network   "sponsored"  by the
> french government tried to do so. 
> 

... however continuing on the assumption that the IANA has the authority
to be the Directory name registry for the Internet, I don't see why
it would ever be a problem for another French national net to get
a DNS domain also, say "f2.net" or something.

Clearly I'm missing something here too.


Wengyik