*.TO Domain Name Registration
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Samiuela Loni Vea Taufa
Nov 28, 2007, 11:40:16 PM11/28/07
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This seems an interesting enough topic, that I
thought I'd put it up here as a separate topic.
The Top Level Domain (tld) for Tonga is TO. Most government websites have standardised on using the *.to type of domain name as it directly links one with the country Tonga.
On the other hand, I heard that one of the reasons the Tonga-Broadcasting commission went away from tbc.to to tonga-broadcasting.com was because they didn't want to be associated with the *.to political discussions ?
Anyhooo.
There are political and technical definitions of the *.to DNS. It is good to get a view of this groups perceptions since at least it can be proposed to Government that dialogue has been given on this matter by sane individuals.
TO as a TLD has been marketed as representative of our Sovereign State, the Kingdom of Tonga.
It is currently administered by a company with historical connections with our King. How much the company earns or does not earn is not public information but there are a lot of wild guesses without any sound basis.
What is the governance question for this arrangement?
http://www.iana.org/root-whois/to.htm
TO is a nomeclature chosen a long time ago by ITU for assigning shortened letters for individual countries in their 'network' of telephony services. ITU chose not to copyright the use of these two letter combinations and were subsequently adapted by ISO and the people who were putting the Internet together.
TO is a standard for communications. TO may stand for Tonga, depending on who you're talking with.
TO stands for Tonga to the ISO, and ICANN the internet numbers people.
TN stands for Tonga to NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation), FIPS U.S. Government for geographical data processing in many publications, such as the CIA World Factbook. TO to them stands for TOGO.
TO is part of the standards for 2 letter representations, there are also 3 letter and 4 letter representations of countries.
Currency Three letter designation. To designate currency, ISO standardised with the first letter of the currency "P" to the Two letter country name "TO" and we have "TOP" as the designation of our currency.
Tonga TO + Pa'anga P ==> TOP
United States of America US + Dollar D ==> USD
Fiji FJ + Dollar D ==> FJD
Australia AU + Dollar D ==> AUD
But there are more than ISO standards for names. Tonga is referenced as TGA by the IOC, and FIFA but we are TON to the ISO-3Alpha and the UN.
In the three digit classification, Tonga is designated by ITU as 676 (our telephone country code) but ISO/UN says we are 776.
The Top Level Domain (tld) for Tonga is TO. Most government websites have standardised on using the *.to type of domain name as it directly links one with the country Tonga.
On the other hand, I heard that one of the reasons the Tonga-Broadcasting commission went away from tbc.to to tonga-broadcasting.com was because they didn't want to be associated with the *.to political discussions ?
Anyhooo.
There are political and technical definitions of the *.to DNS. It is good to get a view of this groups perceptions since at least it can be proposed to Government that dialogue has been given on this matter by sane individuals.
Politics.
TO as a TLD has been marketed as representative of our Sovereign State, the Kingdom of Tonga.
It is currently administered by a company with historical connections with our King. How much the company earns or does not earn is not public information but there are a lot of wild guesses without any sound basis.
What is the governance question for this arrangement?
Technical.
http://www.iana.org/root-whois/to.htm
TO is a nomeclature chosen a long time ago by ITU for assigning shortened letters for individual countries in their 'network' of telephony services. ITU chose not to copyright the use of these two letter combinations and were subsequently adapted by ISO and the people who were putting the Internet together.
TO is a standard for communications. TO may stand for Tonga, depending on who you're talking with.
TO stands for Tonga to the ISO, and ICANN the internet numbers people.
TN stands for Tonga to NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation), FIPS U.S. Government for geographical data processing in many publications, such as the CIA World Factbook. TO to them stands for TOGO.
TO is part of the standards for 2 letter representations, there are also 3 letter and 4 letter representations of countries.
Currency Three letter designation. To designate currency, ISO standardised with the first letter of the currency "P" to the Two letter country name "TO" and we have "TOP" as the designation of our currency.
Tonga TO + Pa'anga P ==> TOP
United States of America US + Dollar D ==> USD
Fiji FJ + Dollar D ==> FJD
Australia AU + Dollar D ==> AUD
But there are more than ISO standards for names. Tonga is referenced as TGA by the IOC, and FIFA but we are TON to the ISO-3Alpha and the UN.
In the three digit classification, Tonga is designated by ITU as 676 (our telephone country code) but ISO/UN says we are 776.
Can Tonga Own the equipment and organisation to service *.TO domain names?
I don't know.RFC
2870 - Root Name Server Operational Requirements
Doesn't seem to be THAT difficult ?
Anyone got the time to cost out how much it
would cost to configure something that more than meets the minimum
standard in the above document ?
Could this be a fast-track, quick-win project ?
-- Samiuela LV Taufa sa...@nomoa.com -or- samt...@gmail.com www.nomoa.com; www.tongatapu.net.to Ph: +676()62-717 Fax: +676()24-099
Samiuela LV Taufa
Nov 29, 2007, 12:25:36 AM11/29/07
to aso...@pmo.gov.to, Samiuela Loni Vea Taufa, tg-...@googlegroups.com, tg-...@googlegroups.com, Fe'ao Vakata
My views on this *.TO.
1st.
It is a technical issue, we need to present
a) clear understanding of the technical requirements of taking over *.to
b) the costs to manage *.to
c) the strategy for achieving and maintaining the skills to manage *.to
When we can legitimately cover all of the above 3 issues, then we can go towards the
2nd.
Political issue.
ICANN has wavered on the ownership issue of country domain names. I do not recall having ever heard a statement from them that Sovereign States own the domains. Nonetheless, I have read that ITU have pushed with WSIS that Governments should own the rights to country domain names.
It is just a matter of approaching the King with the above technical support, and asking him when Eric & Eric can transfer to the Tongan entity the management and marketing of *.TO.
At which point, we'd have to meet the other technical issue of determining the length of contracts for various domain names.
ciao,
Sam T.
aso...@pmo.gov.to wrote the following on 11/29/2007 6:00 PM:
1st.
It is a technical issue, we need to present
a) clear understanding of the technical requirements of taking over *.to
b) the costs to manage *.to
c) the strategy for achieving and maintaining the skills to manage *.to
When we can legitimately cover all of the above 3 issues, then we can go towards the
2nd.
Political issue.
ICANN has wavered on the ownership issue of country domain names. I do not recall having ever heard a statement from them that Sovereign States own the domains. Nonetheless, I have read that ITU have pushed with WSIS that Governments should own the rights to country domain names.
It is just a matter of approaching the King with the above technical support, and asking him when Eric & Eric can transfer to the Tongan entity the management and marketing of *.TO.
At which point, we'd have to meet the other technical issue of determining the length of contracts for various domain names.
ciao,
Sam T.
aso...@pmo.gov.to wrote the following on 11/29/2007 6:00 PM:
Sam Thanks for raising this important issue. The Department has many issues to resolve and this being one. Can you guess the other? What are your views on this? Malo Alfred
TO is a nomeclature chosen a long time ago by ITU for assigning shortened letters for individual countries in their 'network' of telephony services. ITU chose not to copyright the use of these two letter combinations and were subsequently adapted by ISO and the people who were putting the Internet together. TO is a standard for communications. TO may stand for Tonga, depending on who you're talking with. TO stands for Tonga to the ISO, and ICANN the internet numbers people. TN stands for Tonga to NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation), FIPS U.S. Government for geographical data processing in many publications, such as the CIA World Factbook. TO to them stands for TOGO. TO is part of the standards for 2 letter representations, there are also 3 letter and 4 letter representations of countries. /Currency Three letter designation/. To designate currency, ISO standardised with the first letter of the currency "P" to the Two letter country name "TO" and we have "TOP" as the designation of our currency. Tonga TO + Pa'anga P ==> TOP United States of America US + Dollar D ==> USD Fiji FJ + Dollar D ==> FJD Australia AU + Dollar D ==> AUD But there are more than ISO standards for names. Tonga is referenced as TGA by the IOC, and FIFA but we are TON to the ISO-3Alpha and the UN. In the three digit classification, Tonga is designated by ITU as 676 (our telephone country code) but ISO/UN says we are 776. Can Tonga Own the equipment and organisation to service *.TO domain names? I don't know. RFC 2870 - Root Name Server Operational Requirements <http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2870.html>
Doesn't seem to be THAT difficult ? Anyone got the time to cost out how much it would cost to configure something that more than meets the minimum standard in the above document ? Could this be a fast-track, quick-win project ? -- Samiuela LV Taufa sa...@nomoa.com -or- samt...@gmail.com www.nomoa.com; www.tongatapu.net.to
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