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

[Fouad Bajwa]

I still see the new TLDs spurring an opportunity for colonizing the
address space building neospaces that get to be controlled more and/or
governed more by private entities than just the governments. ICANN at
many stages does seem like distraction but that IMHO is just one face
of things. It is also an attempt to build a wall of many services
around the resource mapping system to keep governance away from it
from entities other than ICANN...........the exorbitant fees are a
capital raising disguised as a governance system to build security by
the colonizers to sustain their state :o)

-- Fouad

On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 1:42 AM, Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>
> ________________________________
> 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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