Re: [ga] On being democratically global

[Dan Steinberg <synthesis@videotron.ca>]

Bill,

Ummmmmmmmm there is only one thing wrong with this picture. acquired
rights.

what the #$$% do you do with all the names that already exist under the
existing TLDs??????
In the interest of being democractically global and canonical and all
that... you introduce a whole slew of different problems.  You gonna be
the one that goes through everyone's webpages and fixes the broken
links?  what about the domainname.com domainname.net that both reside in
the US?
etc etc.

ok...so there's more than one thing wrong with the picture

"William S. Lovell" wrote:
> 
> The Internet goes everywhere, right? All you need is phone lines (or
> cable, satellite, etc.), right? Well, here's a couple of models:
> 
> 1) There are no TLDs, but only "domain names."  That's how it started
> when under the NSF, and before it became commercialized and thus fell
> prey to NSI and the big money interests.  Some little bunch of gnomes
> has a master server (with satellites all over the world for security
> purposes), and what these gnomes do is keep the list up to date, with
> those who want to get or keep domain names paying a periodic fee that
> pays that little bunch of gnomes and buys some servers.  Simplicity
> itself, and various entrepreneurs could do a land office business in
> providing WHOIS data and other supplemental services that would help
> people in finding who they wanted. IPv6 could handle it.
> 
> 2) There are TLDs, but they are all country codes. You have to be in
> country X in order to register under that .cc. So the gnomes have
> created files; one for .de, one for .us, one for .fr, and so on. Same
> story, only slightly more complicated, but would surely cut down on
> the search times if, say, one knew that the company being sought was
> located in the U. S. rather than Germany or Japan or China.
> 
> Under either scenario, all the big "policy" decisions would disappear,
> as would the destructive, undemocratiic results of commercialization.
> 
> The "bunch of gnomes" (not ICANN or any similar such trolls under the
> bridge, but some internationally agreed upon little bunch sitting out,
> perhaps,on some isolated island protectorate of the U.N. that needs
> the money).
> 
> KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid)
> 
> :-)
> 
> Bill Lovell

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