[ih] Dot Com etc

[jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)]

    > From: Vint Cerf <vint at google.com>

    > the motivation for these TLDs was to parse the responsibility for
    > registration into very distinct categories so that the work could be
    > delegated without too much dispute over jurisdiction

Good point; at that point, access to the Internet was still restricted to
those entities which were either i) US Govt, or ii) had a contract with the
US-Govt, or iii) other US Govt-sourced reason to be on the Internet (e.g. a
vendor to i or ii). So registration wasn't just a 'come and get it' thing;
there was (in theory at least) a vetting stage.

	Noel