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Hello Ian,<br>
<br>
since the domain name system,in your view is solely about resource
discovery, I suggest you give up ianpeter.com altogether and move
your email to gmail, whilst hosting your Web site under a generic
domain.<br>
Only troubles are: <br>
1. I won't know how to find your Web site or how to email you.
(except if you manage to position yourself well with search engines
and there's an art to that - pay more, get more)<br>
2. if you start becoming too controversial for your ISPs, you might
vanish from the Internet altogether. DItto if your ISP is purchased
by someone else. You'll just be forced to change email address,
change web address... you get the point.<br>
<br>
Kind regards,<br>
<br>
Olivier<br>
<br>
Le 05/11/2010 21:42, Ian Peter a écrit :
<blockquote cite="mid:C8FAB765.13310%25ian.peter@ianpeter.com"
type="cite">
<title>Re: [governance] It's Time to Stop ICANN's Top-Level Domain
(TLD)</title>
<font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;">Hi Rafik,<br>
<br>
Resource discovery is , simply, “being able to find things” on
the Internet.<br>
<br>
The original reason for having domain names was that it was
thought (correctly) that it would be easier to remember the
name of a site than the IP number of the site (eg easier to
remember berkeley.edu than </span></font><font size="2"><font
face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:
10pt;">199.133.223.253). Thus the domain name system was
born and a mechanism was needed to map all internet
addressable numbers to appropriate names. <br>
<br>
These days the domain name is becoming less and less
relevant for this task. People use search engines,
directories and apps rather than directly using names to
find things. The awkwardness of the domain name system in
providing sensible resource discovery with the internet the
size it is now (let alone what is to come) has led a lot of
people to look at other ways to do this.<br>
<br>
Ian Peter<br>
</span></font></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica,
Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br>
<br>
<hr width="95%" align="CENTER" size="3"><b>From: </b>Rafik
Dammak <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="rafik.dammak@gmail.com">rafik.dammak@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Sat, 6 Nov 2010 05:05:05 +0900<br>
<b>To: </b><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="governance@lists.cpsr.org">governance@lists.cpsr.org</a>>,
Ian Peter <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="ian.peter@ianpeter.com">ian.peter@ianpeter.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc: </b>Avri Doria <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="avri@psg.com">avri@psg.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [governance] It's Time to Stop ICANN's
Top-Level Domain (TLD)<br>
<br>
Hi Ian,<br>
<br>
you mentioned many times resource discovery, can you please
clarify what you mean by it? I am not sure that everybody here
share the same definition.<br>
<br>
Rafik<br>
<br>
2010/11/6 Ian Peter <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="ian.peter@ianpeter.com">ian.peter@ianpeter.com</a>><br>
</span></font>
<blockquote><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;">Avri wrote<br>
<br>
<br>
> It is all well and<br>
> good that you have a preference for maintaining the
current restricted<br>
> incumbent market,<br>
<br>
<br>
Not at all, and IDNs are a case in point where expansion
makes sense for as<br>
long as domain names maintain usefulness - but any
attachment of exorbitant<br>
fees to IDNs to allow them to be established would be
ridiculous.<br>
<br>
I'm simply pointing out, as others are, that endless
expansion of domain<br>
name suffixes does nothing to aid resource discovery or
improve internet<br>
governance.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD
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