Re: Randomly-assigned TLDs

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

Paul Ezra Kautz allegedly said:
>
[...lot's deleted...]
> I now 
> see what made me dislike Postel's plan, and it remains present in the 
> sharing plan: the extra value of the name.  I've tried to back this 
> aversion up, but it seems a rather basic ideological difference.
> 

It seems to me that sharing is orthogonal to "the extra value of the
name" -- the natural evolution of sharing leads to an environment
where *every* registry can register domains in *any* iTLD.  Could you
explain how this favors (or works against) "the extra value of the
name"?

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