[governance] A workable, gTLDs process, now

[Yrjö Länsipuro]

The name of the Finnish capital Helsinki offers an example  of joint use, sort of,  of a geographic name on the 2nd level. It was registered  early on by the University of Helsinki while the city was still sleeping (and subsequently had to settle for  hel.fi)     but at least  www.helsinki.fi brings you to a joint page from where you can go either way  
http://www.helsinki.fi/en/index.html 
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Yrjö

From: bdelachapelle at gmail.com
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:51:49 +0100
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; roland at internetpolicyagency.com
Subject: Re: [governance] A workable, gTLDs process, now

I was initially very much in favor of some sort of taxonomy, but ended up accepting that the TLD "categories" would progressively emerge rather than be pre-determined. This is what has actually happened as the respective rules for geoTLDs, brandTLDs, and communiTLDs were developed, and I have no doubt that grouping of registries of a similar type will spontaneously form after the launch.


As for duplicates, I never understood why a .cambridge could not be used jointly by the various Cambridges in the world, ideally as a joint coordinated effort, but even if uncoordinated (after all, the .la - the ccTLD for Laos - is de facto used as a proxy for Los Angeles). Likewise for many types of names. 


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Bertrand

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Roland Perry <roland at internetpolicyagency.com> wrote:


In message <4D6589D7.40400 at communisphere.com>, at 17:27:35 on Wed, 23 Feb 2011, Thomas Lowenhaupt <toml at communisphere.com> writes






1.  Both city-TLDs and linguistic/cultural TLDs are long overdue. Had the Net's inventors known the scope the Net would take, they'd certainly have taken greater care in issuing a more robust DNS taxonomy. But with cities being the hope for a sustainable future (if you believe in that sort of stuff)  I suggest they get first priority






Issues with the DNS taxonomy have been evident for a very long time (it was one of the things some colleagues and I struggled with when we set up an ISP in 1994).



But adding on extra layer only solves some of the problems, because even for cities there are duplicates (eg "Lincoln" is a regional capital in both UK and USA, "Cambridge" is a well known University and regional capital in the UK, as well as a university town in USA).



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