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

[Lee W McKnight]

Hi,

If I may wade in briefly; re the reform of the gTLD creation process which has led to the potential creation of many more gtld's:  while obviously as yet far from perfect, it is a significant setp forward - in internet governance. 

Ian, while you may not care for the decision to permit more gTLDs, but compared to the arbitrariness of prior processes which prevented that or made it almost impossible, it is a big big step forward toward more transparent admin procedures within ICANN, and hence indeed a step forward for internet governance. In my view. Whether or not we feel specific new gTLDs are good or bad or succeed or fail, it shouldn't be to you or me - or ICANN - to prevent suitably qualified folks from giving it a go.

Further re resource discovery, that is a far bigger topic than DNS, and can involve multiple methods and techniques, to which the addition of TLDs can be a constraint or insignificant, depending. 

Lee


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From: Ian Peter [ian.peter at ianpeter.com]
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 4:42 PM
To: Rafik Dammak; governance at lists.cpsr.org
Subject: Re: [governance] It's Time to Stop ICANN's Top-Level Domain (TLD)

Hi Rafik,

Resource discovery is , simply, “being able to find things” 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


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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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