[ga] Land Grab ? Go West Young Man....

["Jim Fleming" <JimFleming@prodigy.net>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Love" <love@cptech.org>
> There is no real land grab in the non-dictionary name space, only work,
> investment and effort.  There is a land grab for the dictionary words,
> and they should be decided according to a different policy.  
> 

http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/130dftmail/unir.txt
http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/sdks/platform/tpipv6/start.asp
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/ietf/Current/msg12213.html
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/ietf/Current/msg12223.html

In cyberspace, "land" is more similar to IP Address Space.
Names are more like road signs or billboards. If given a choice,
most farmers would likely keep their land, instead of the billboards
that come and go on the land. It is interesting that people debate
the names, when the Internet is really constructed on numbers.

As for expansion of the name space, there appear to be FOUR
major movements. Some might label them in a range from Liberal
to Conservative. The Conservatives obviously do not want any new
names, no surprise there. The Liberals have now made it possible
to have almost any TLD and the market forces are working. Some
might call that a "Land Grab". When the Western U.S. was opened to
settlers, people called those people pioneers. That spirit is still alive
today.

http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/ietf/Current/msg12574.html
RFC-2001-07-01-000 IPv8 Expansion of Proof of Concept TLD Development

Jim Fleming
http://www.DOT-Arizona.com
http://www.DOT.Arizona



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