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From: schoff@uu.psi.com (Martin Schoffstall)
Subject: Re: UUPSI's new rules
Message-ID: <1991Mar18.162458.6587@uu.psi.com>
Organization: Performance Systems International, Inc.
References: <1991Mar14.052623.26604@jpradley.jpr.com> <1991Mar14.170247.10965@uu.psi.com> <1991Mar18.023911.18805@jpradley.jpr.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 91 16:24:58 GMT

>
>Could you expand on that a bit? Given some "place.com", what, or who,
>is or is not permitted by the "laws of the Internet" to be within that
>domain?
>

As best I can.......

It is assumed that "place" is a registered corporation, limited partnership,
or some such for-profit entitity regulated inside some jurisdiction of the US
(like a State, commonwealth, or territory).  This organization is expected
to generate names under its registered domain "place.com".  No other
organization or individual is to generate names with this domain.

But there are exceptions, if you give accounts on your machine to other
people, then you are fine.  However it is verboten for other organizations
to use your domain on their machines.

To clear up some of the more interesting service holes there are
other provisions;

What is provided to deal with individual's machines is the .US domain.

Some "organized" non-profit associations appear to be able to use
the .org domain for distributed machine networks, (fidonet appears
to do this), though they should speak for themselves.

Rules have "changed", at one point in time organizations used to
be placed under the .NET domain, that has now stopped.

Marty