<div>I was initially very much in favor of some sort of taxonomy, but ended up accepting that the TLD "categories" would progressively emerge rather than be pre-determined. This is what has actually happened as the respective rules for geoTLDs, brandTLDs, and communiTLDs were developed, and I have no doubt that grouping of registries of a similar type will spontaneously form after the launch.</div>
<div><br></div>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. <div>
<br></div><div>Best</div><div><br></div><div>Bertrand</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Roland Perry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:roland@internetpolicyagency.com">roland@internetpolicyagency.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">In message <<a href="mailto:4D6589D7.40400@communisphere.com" target="_blank">4D6589D7.40400@communisphere.com</a>>, at 17:27:35 on Wed, 23 Feb 2011, Thomas Lowenhaupt <<a href="mailto:toml@communisphere.com" target="_blank">toml@communisphere.com</a>> writes<div class="im">
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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<br>
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Issues with the DNS taxonomy have been evident for a very long time (it was one of the things some colleagues and I struggled with when we set up an ISP in 1994).<br>
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But adding on extra layer only solves some of the problems, because even for cities there are duplicates (eg "Lincoln" is a regional capital in both UK and USA, "Cambridge" is a well known University and regional capital in the UK, as well as a university town in USA).<br>
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