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> Governments should exist as individual planes within a single top-level namespace.

Isn't that exactly how it works? The top level namespace is ".", every goverment controls a namespace under that.

Or do you mean that we should have .se.gov, .uk.gov and no government control over non-.gov domains?



> Or do you mean that we should have .se.gov, .uk.gov and no government control over non-.gov domains?

Yes, that would be a substantial improvement.


uk.gob us.gob etc. though. Why should we use the English word for government?


OP is a classic imperial citizen with no concept of the world outside his empire


Is http the correct abbreviation for your language's translation of hypertext transport protocol?


Because for most international standards we based it either on french or english. Recently (the last half century or so) it's been a lot more english, which is nice since it's the most widely spoken language.




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