[governance] It's Time to Stop ICANN's Top-Level Domain (TLD)

[Avri Doria]

On 5 Nov 2010, at 15:41, Ian Peter wrote:

> Whatever you think about millions of tlds - it does nothing to aid resource
> discovery and will only confuse it. It also has precious little to do with
> internet governance.


I think this argument has as much in it favor as the obverse.

The point is greater choice, and especially IDN choice, i.e. gTLDs in the form people want them in the languages and scripts they want.  It is all well and good that you have a preference for maintaining the current restricted incumbent market, but that does not mean that opening the market will cause any greater harm.  

Internet governance has very little to do with whether there should be or shouldn't be, except on the issue of incumbent registries.  What Internet governance mostly relates to, is how these are distributed, regulated and how compliance is enforced.

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