Re: Qualified Certificates draft - Country name

[galactus@xxxxxxxx (Arnoud "Galactus" Engelfriet)]

In article <>,
Paul Koning <pkoning@xedia.com> wrote:
> >>>>> "tgindin" == tgindin  <tgindin@us.ibm.com> writes:
> 
>  tgindin> I think that country name should be made mandatory.  If
>  tgindin> country name is made optional, how is the number of
>  tgindin> first-level entries in the global directory tree going to be
>  tgindin> held down to navigable levels?...
>  tgindin> Does anyone know of an alternative attribute that
>  tgindin> organizations could be made subordinate to?
> 
>  tgindin> Tom Gindin (tgindin@us.ibm.com)
>                                      ^^^
> It seems to me you have an existence proof right there that it's not
> at all necessary to subordinate names to countries.

The number of .com domains is now well over 3 million. It's hardly
a meaningful top-level domain anymore. The adoption of new top-level
domains has been planned for several years, but there's still no
sign of them coming into effect anytime soon.

So, yes, it's not necesssary to use country names as top-level/
first-level entries, but if you want something else, you're pretty
much on your own with the definition of the classification.

Greetings,

Arnoud

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