Network Working Group O. Vaughan Request for Comments: 2240 Vaughan Enterprises Category: Informational November 1997 A Legal Basis for Domain Name Allocation Status of this Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1997). All Rights Reserved. Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2. Overview of the domain space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3. Possible solutions to name exhaustion . . . . . . . . . . . 3 4. Proposed creation of new SLDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 4.1 The world is not flat so why should domains be? . . . . . . 4 4.2 The case for legal names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4.3 Allocation of legal SLDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4.4 Allocation of miscellaneous SLDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 4.5 Identifiers in non-ASCII languages . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 5. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 6. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 7. Authors' Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 8. Full Copyright Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1. Introduction The purpose of this memo is to focus discussion on the particular problems with the exhaustion of the top level domain space in the Internet and the possible conflicts that can occur when multiple organisations are vying for the same name. No proposed solutions in Vaughan Informational