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

[Fouad Bajwa]

We are living with an address space that is gearing up for
colonization and private control ;o) very true Olivier with your
clarification.

The issue of information brokers and intermediaries also come into
play here where certain neospaces (new colonies of information) may
actually not require this addressing if all of it just went into one
space or one colony:

1. www.education.google
2. www.health.google.
3. www.news.google
4. www.mail.google
5. www.school.google
6. www.4G.google
7. www.andriod.google
8. www.earth.google
9. www.broadband.google

Numbers and machine language on the network would never have been easy
for the simple users of the Internet to memorize. That remains the
base of the addressing system, address yourself on the Internetwork!
But, the growth, expansion and development of the Internetwork really
is beyond ICANN and may be the bend towards new gTLDs is something
being enforced on it so capitalist control of information and
knowledge can happen through network colonization.

The real governance of the network is currently perceived to be
enforceable by governments where as content development and
distribution remains in the hands of entities beyond governments and
in location where legal jurisdictions vary and no common or universal
litigation instruments exist. Where certain do, they exist in
neospaces developed by certain powerful governments and attempts are
usually made through trade and industry IPR instruments to enforce
such things but still can't be applicable to everyone.

-- Best

Fouad

On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 3:06 AM, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl at gih.com> wrote:
> Hello Ian,
>
> since the domain name system,in your view is solely about resource
> discovery, I suggest you give up ianpeter.com altogether and move your email
> to gmail, whilst hosting your Web site under a generic domain.
> Only troubles are:
> 1. I won't know how to find your Web site or how to email you. (except if
> you manage to position yourself well with search engines and there's an art
> to that - pay more, get more)
> 2. if you start becoming too controversial for your ISPs, you might vanish
> from the Internet altogether. DItto if your ISP is purchased by someone
> else. You'll just be forced to change email address, change web address...
> you get the point.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Olivier
>
> Le 05/11/2010 21:42, Ian Peter a écrit :
>
> 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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