Re: [wg-review] domain names and easy access to public info

[Luca Muscarà <muscara@unive.it>]

Hi members,

in this WG or elsewhere I have not read yet anything concerning a particularly
useful social character that the TLD system carries with itself, seen in
particular from the point of view of how the use of a specific name could
affect the cognitive maps of an internet navigator.
It is easy to get a usable map of the world if the main division of the
cyberworls correspond to something easy to identify.
Adding seven or more domain names will change that map, probably with many
advantages, but the original function of allowing-- to a certain
extent--identification of the real players we know in the real world in the
cyberworld--should be preserved in order to help people getting access to
their relevant information.
I think that one of the conditions that any new gTLD should meet is the
following:
it would need to be easily understable by anybody as the original gTLDs
concept implied:
it should be easy for people to identify what kind of area or social
organization it refers to, items, people, entities or other?

An example: will the .name include only the actual first and family names of
real people as much as .geo would be just for georeferenced data? and what if
you allow in .name also fiction names or a corporate names?
If .com & .biz  cover just the same areas of business operations, will their
use show only the epoch of penetration of the internet in the company (and
viceversa) started ? before or after Y2K ?
What would be considered a .museum ? Will it include also libraries,
collections, galleries, archives ? etc.
I am afraid that these reflections are probably out of place and out of date
and I apologise for the simplicity.
I would really appreciate if somebody would take a minute to point me to
relevant documents on this subject.

Maybe we should now focus on having a real consensus on where the debate will
continue tomorrow with the same people of this list.
Or maybe somebody could kindly remind us where do we get the full list of the
members of this WG and their addresses?
thank you and hope to read you then...

Regards,

Luca Muscarà

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