RFC 2352 (rfc2352) - Page 1 of 8
A Convention For Using Legal Names as Domain Names
Alternative Format: Original Text Document
Network Working Group O. Vaughan
Request for Comments: 2352 Vaughan Enterprises
Obsoletes: 2240 May 1998
Category: Informational
A Convention For Using Legal Names as Domain Names
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 (1998). All Rights Reserved.
RFC Editor's Note
This RFC is an independent submission that discusses a possible
convention for allocating domain names based on corporate and other
names as registered by law.
It appears to depend on corporations changing their domain names from
their present form to more cumbersome handles, such as changing
cisco.com to cisco-systems.co.ca.us or ibm.com to international-
business-machines.co.ny.us, without giving them an incentive to do
so, such as deprecating the .com and .net gTLDs. It also appears to
legislate the structure each national registry applies to its name
space, something which the document itself asserts is within national
purview and not for global standardization.
It may not be politically feasible to implement as described.
Vaughan Informational