Re: [ga] XTNS Launches New Domain Naming System

[Joanna Lane <jo-uk@rcn.com>]

on 8/21/01 3:47 AM, Jeff Williams at jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>> Hello Tim,
>> 
>> If "Domain Namespaces" are not Domain Names at all, they are strings, isn't
>> this label misleading and confusingly similar to Domain names?
> 
> No I don't see the two as being misleading or similar.  They are two distinct
> different things.  Domain Names are congruence or potential congruence
> of 2nd level designations within a TLD.  Domain Namespaces are the progressive
> levels in a TLD name space from a Domain Name.  Pretty simple if you think
> about ti a bit Joanna...  >;)

What I like about you Jeff is that you can always be relied upon to state
the obvious...:-). 

What we have here is akin to a situation with a "Natural TLD" (meaning an
ICANN approved TLD) and an "Artificial TLD"  (meaning interception at
browser level to resolve to a URL that masquerades as a TLD/ 2nd level). To
refer to the latter by the label of "Domain Name Space" sounds to me not
dissimilar to  "artificial natural flavor", ergo passing off, which may well
fool the ill-informed general public, hence my concern to know exactly how
Mr. Langdell is addressing this issue in the best interests of the public,
if at all. 
> 
>> Would you by
>> any chance be able to provide us with a Definition for "domain namespace"?
> 
> See above..

Your definition is gobbledegook to the general public.


Regards,
Joanna 

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