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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"> <A
title=toml@communisphere.com href="mailto:toml@communisphere.com">Thomas
Lowenhaupt</A> wrote:</DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>With the ICANN having deemed
cities eligible to develop TLDs, and with cities such as Barcelona,
Berlin, New York, and Paris lining up for TLDs, it’s time to consider the
place and impact city-TLDs will have on Internet
governance.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>IMHO place and city TLD will have as
much impact on Internet Governance as the style of the US President's limousine
will have on US politics. ie. none.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>The .us CCTLD was available for a very
long time, structured with geographic locations leading to addresses of the type
example.new-york.ny.us and do we see an huge upsurge in those addresses?
No.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>Sadly, the organisations and individuals
pushing for those types of addresses may well be, in my opinion, kidding
themselves about the impact and importance of such addresses. If at all, the
inherent geographic specification within the address might limit a potential
market's reach rather than extend it, since it would introduce a geographical
limit to cyber-space. Then again, perhaps some people will like to be
characterised as being from place X or place Y, but rather than trying to divide
and categorise the world, shouldn't we think about bringing it
together?</FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>I don't purport to be holding the
universal truth, so your opinions may vary.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>Best regards,</FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>Olivier</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">-- <BR>Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD<BR><A
href="http://www.gih.com/ocl.html">http://www.gih.com/ocl.html</A></SPAN></P>
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