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From: J.Crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK (Jon Crowcroft)
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Date: 13 Nov 89 13:56:19 GMT
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 >	There were some organizations which felt themselves to be
 >	international in nature and did not want to register under
 >	any particular national rubric. So .INT was created
 >	to accommodate.

e.g. NATO

 >	
 >perhaps mark pullen or someone from nic.ddn.mil could outline the "official"
 >criteria by which one may obtain a domain under .int?  if none currently exists,
 >we could hash it out here.

its probably worth checking out the International Law on this. I know
0.01 about it, but i understand Companies are normally registered
as being based in some nation or other. .Com or .Org or something like
should suffice though... However, there are truly international
organisations, such as UN/European Commision etc, who (may/will) have 
networks...Its probably up to them (CCITT/ISO/UN) to allocate within
.Int. 

Of course, when there's a colony on the moon, some terestrial will
have to bite the bullet and agree on the .. domain again:-)

 jon