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<dd>1. Both city-TLDs and linguistic/cultural TLDs are long
overdue. Had the Net's inventors known the scope the Net would take,
they'd certainly have taken greater care in issuing a more robust DNS
taxonomy. But with cities being the hope for a sustainable future (if you
believe in that sort of stuff) I suggest they get first priority
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</dl>I am sorry but, Robert Tréhin introduced the root name concept
(TLDs) and I was the one who established the country code taxonomy (ISO
3166) and imposed a hierarchical naming structure (in 1978 by logical
pure technical mistake as the code was not planned for it). I am sure we
both regret the scope the Nets have been limited to by the temporary
change in nature of names from belonging to a universal user naming plan
of the digital ecosystem, to a limited identification business and
political tool. Temporary, because:<br><br>
- the gTLD delayed saga will necessarily be the end of the ICANN's
house of cards, needing too many lawyers to manage a technical
incongruity (introducing legal rigidity while demonstrating systemic
flexibility).<br>
- ICANN having refused to cooperate to a post-IDNA2008 implications
strategy nothing has been prepared to match their
"opportunities" as the IESG phrased them.<br><br>
At 15:51 24/02/2011, Bertrand de La Chapelle wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">As for duplicates, I never
understood why a .cambridge could not be used jointly by the various
Cambridges in the world, ideally as a joint coordinated effort, but even
if uncoordinated (after all, the .la - the ccTLD for Laos - is de facto
used as a proxy for Los Angeles). Likewise for many types of names.
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Money. Domain Names do not belong to their owner but to the TLD managers.
In a taxonomy a name is related to a stable concept. In the ICANN system
it is a yearly bill of an ICANN franchisee Your name DNS syntax is
"bertrand.la-chapelle". Should ICANN grant me
".la-chapellle" for $ 250.000 all included plus $ 500 yearly
operations costs, every "xyz.la-chapelle" in the world should
pay me $ 25 per year, with GAC support for IDNs becoming international
ID. Since there are 402 (de) La Chapelle in Paris alone, I can get $
10.000 per annum from Paris, and 15.000 from the North department.
Probably something similar in Quebec. Would it be a good business? I do
not know, but good or bad it would make me a good ICANN defender with a
lot of "(de) La Chapelle" demanding my stability, hence ICANN
stability, hence the US influence. stability.<br><br>
jfc<br>
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