Re: Few ideas on preliminary global registry

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 10:50 AM +0100 11/19/96, Elisabeth PORTENEUVE wrote:

> 3. Before we start to put iTLD's into commercial chaos we need
>    to establish one global registry system to have means to
>    control it.
>    I mean: Internet Registry Office with global numbering system
>    for Internet citizens, Internet Registry Office for companies,
>    Internet banks, Internet law and Internet policy.
>    I would see the following scheme:
>      A company requesting an Internet domain name should first:
>      - register its owners or directorate members to the Internet
>        Registry Office for Internet citizens and get Internet universal
>        citizen numbers
>        (attributes: similar to a birth certificate, personnaly I would
>         add here geographical position of the birth place -- latitude
>         and longitude, as well as a reference to an office keeping
>         this birth record)
>      - register to the Internet Registry Office for companies, getting
>        Internet universal company number
>        (attributes: when, where, business sector, relevant law, ... )
>      Then and only then an iTLD office could accept to deliver an
>      Internet domain, following some yet to be established rules.
>      This two registrations rules should also apply to all
>      other existing domains, .com included.
>      The Internet law should prohibit trademarks and copyrights
>      on common names.
>    All registrations should be at very small fees, yearly charge for
>    companies, one time charge or no charge for Internet citizen
>    registration. Fees should be paied to the Internet banks.
>
>    Creating Internet Registry Office with global numbering system
>    for Internet citizens could start global population registry,
>    something terribly missimg in common situations (I live in
>    France, I was born in Poland; each time I need an important
>    official document I have to apply to get my birth certificate
>    and I have it translated by an expensive official office --
>    all of it just to say I was born).
>

Yes! I'd love to have my internet ID number stamped on my forehead.
What a cool idea! Please sign me up for a tattoo at the low
introductory rate of $19.95.

I don't think so. The problems of the domain naming scheme can very
easily be solved without dragging every man, woman, and child on this
planet into the equation without their permission.

Thank you very much.

Simon

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