[governance] Cities and Internet Governance

[Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond]

 Thomas Lowenhaupt wrote:

  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.

   



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.



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.



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?



I don't purport to be holding the universal truth, so your opinions may vary.



Best regards,



Olivier



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Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD
http://www.gih.com/ocl.html


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