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

[Roland Perry]

In message <C8FAB765.13310%ian.peter at ianpeter.com>, at 07:42:29 on Sat, 
6 Nov 2010, Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com> writes
>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

But it wasn't intended for you to guess that the University of Berkeley 
might have the domain berkeley.edu

And what of a hypothetical University of Berkeley in Australia?

berkeley-au.edu is inelegant for many reasons, whereas extending the TLD 
space and assigning berkeley.edu.au is both memorable and scaleable.
-- 
Roland Perry
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