[governance] A workable, gTLDs process, now

[Edmon]

Hi Bertrand,

I agree very much with your observation.

What would be interesting to explore however, in the case that we recognize
that we do not have consensus on certain areas for the full new gTLD
program, is to ask if we can live with the solutions for the same issues for
IDN gTLDs.  Because the cost-benefit balance for IDN gTLDs may be very
different, we may find different answers... and not because IDN gTLD is any
special category of new gTLD.

Of course, I believe that the top priority is to have the full new gTLD
process launched.

Edmon

 

 

 

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[mailto:governance-request at lists.cpsr.org] On Behalf Of Bertrand de La
Chapelle
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 10:52 PM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Roland Perry
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. 

 

Best

 

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).
-- 
Roland Perry
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