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

[Ian Peter]

Hi Rafik,

Resource discovery is , simply, ³being able to find things² on the Internet.

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
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.

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.

Ian Peter



From: Rafik Dammak <rafik.dammak at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 05:05:05 +0900
To: <governance at lists.cpsr.org>, Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com>
Cc: Avri Doria <avri at psg.com>
Subject: Re: [governance] It's Time to Stop ICANN's Top-Level Domain (TLD)

Hi Ian,

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.

Rafik

2010/11/6 Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com>
> Avri wrote
> 
> 
>> >  It is all well and
>> > good that you have a preference for maintaining the current restricted
>> > incumbent market,
> 
> 
> Not at all, and IDNs are a case in point where expansion makes sense for as
> long as domain names maintain usefulness - but any attachment of exorbitant
> fees to IDNs to allow them to be established would be ridiculous.
> 
> I'm simply pointing out, as others are, that endless expansion of domain
> name suffixes does nothing to aid resource discovery or improve internet
> governance.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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