As per Relevance of the word organization, we have this rfc below:
Network Working Group Federal Networking
Request For Comments: 1811 June 1995
Category:
U.S. Government Internet Domain
Status of this
This memo provides information for the Internet community. This
does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution
this memo is unlimited
This document describes the registration policies for the top-
domain ".GOV". Thus far, Federal Agencies and their
have registered without any guidance. This has resulted in
registrations for Federal Agencies and naming schemes that do
facilitate responsiveness to the public. This document fixes this
restricting registrations to coincide with the approved structure
the US government. The document cited, FIPS 95-1, provides
standard recognized structure into which domain registrations
top-level domains. The IANA requires that an organization/
apply for and get a 2 letter code from ISO/ITU (e.g., US for
States) for additional top-level registration
As a side effect, this reduces the number of .GOV level
and reduces the workload on the Internic
U.S. GOVERNMENT INTERNET DOMAIN NAMES
The .GOV domain is delegated from the root authority to the
Federal Networking Council. The .GOV domain is for registration
US governmental entities on the federal level only.
for state and local governmental agencies shall be made under the .
domain in accordance with the policies for that domain
1) The document "Codes for the Identification of Federal
Federally Assisted Organizations", FIPS 95-1 (or its successor
lists the official names of US Government agencies
A) Top-level entities (e.g., those with codes ending in 00 such
"1200 Department of Agriculture"), and independent agencies
organizations (e.g., "National Science Foundation and other non
indented listings unless prohibited below) as listed in
document are eligible for registration directly under .GOV
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B) Autonomous law enforcement components of top-level
(e.g., "Federal Bureau of Investigation", "Secret Service", "
Guard") are also eligible for registration
C) Cross-agency collaborative organizations (e.g., "
Networking Council", "Information Infrastructure Task Force")
eligible for registration under .GOV upon presentation of
chartering document and are the only non-FIPS-
organizations eligible for registration under .GOV
D) Subsidiary, non-autonomous components of top-level or
entities are not eligible for separate registration
International organizations listed in this document are
eligible for registration under .GOV
E) Organizations listed as "Federally Aided Organizations" are
eligible for registration under .GOV and should register
.ORG or other appropriate top-level domain
F) Organizations subsidiary to "Department of Defense"
register under the ".MIL" domain via the Defense Data
Network Information Center - contact registrar@nic.ddn.mil
The only standard exceptions to these rules are changes
governmental structure due to statutory, regulatory or
directives not yet reflected in the above document. The
agency should provide documentation in one of the above forms
request an exception. Other requests for exception should
referred to the Federal Networking Council
2) A domain name should be derived from the official name for
organization (e.g., "USDA.Gov" or "Agriculture.GOV".)
registration shall be listed in the registration database under
official name (per FIPS 95-1) for the organization or under the
in the chartering document
3) Only ONE registration and delegation shall be made per agency
The .GOV registration authority shall provide registrations on
first-come first-served basis. It is an individual agency matter
to which portion of the agency is responsible for managing the
space under a delegated agency domain
4) Those agencies and entities that have multiple registrations
.GOV may retain them for a maximum of 3 years from the
date of this document. Within 6 months after the publication of
document, one primary domain must be selected for the agency.
other (secondary) domains must cease further sub-delegations
registrations at this time. As of 1 year after the publication
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this document, the secondary domains will become undelegated and
revert to the control of the .GOV owner. As of 2 years after
publication of this document, all registrations in the
domains must be mirrored in the primary domain and those names
be used where possible. At the 3 year point, all secondary
registrations will be deleted
5) Those agencies and entities already registered in .GOV but
listed in FIPS 95-1 (e.g., DOE labs, state entities) may retain
registration within the constraint of the single registration
(see para 4). No further non-FIPS-listed registrations will be made
State and local entities are strongly encouraged to re-register
.US, but this is not mandatory
[1] Federal Information Processing Standards Publication 95-1 (
PUB 95-1, "Codes for the Identification of Feral and
Assisted Organizations", U.S. Department of Commerce,
Institute of Standards and Technology, January 4, 1993.
[2] Postel, J., "Domain Name System Structure and Delegation",
1591, USC/Information Sciences Institute, March 1994.
Security
Security issues are not discussed in this memo
Author's
Federal Networking
4001 N. Fairfax
Arlington, VA 22203
Phone: (703) 522-6410
EMail: execdir@fnc.
URL: http://www.fnc.
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