Comments on Karp draft

[Hank Nussbacher <hank@ibm.net.il>]

>  Museum and Heritage Sector Interests in the iTLD Delegation Process
>                   <DRAFT-IAHC-karp-museum-00.txt>

>   It is argued that the heritage sectors function as significant
>   providers of network content. Any potential that a modification of

Can you base that statement on any facts?  Number of web pages in
your sector vs. the total number of web pages worldwide?  Number of
web servers in your sector vs number of web servers in other sectors
like sex, computer sales, cd sales, book sales, etc.?

>   The Postel Proposal and the initiation of the IAHC's activity gave
>   rise to clear hope for a positive turn in these developments. If the
>   museum sector were to end up among those that had its own iTLD,
>   notions of guessable and memorable domain designations might finally
>   be realized. However, since the proposal states that new iTLD
>   authorities will be expected to operate several domains, there is
>   reason to expect that a new museum TLD would need to be administered
>   together with other domains.

Can you explain how frick.museum would be more memorable than
frick.museum.org?

>   A next level of concern (and certainly not unique to the heritage
>   sectors) involves devising strategies for gaining acceptance
>   within the community. A museum that already has a second level
>   domain in a national TLD is quite likely to be willing to accept a
>   third level designation in a new TLD which provides instant
>   recognition as a museum. The third level within a general heritage
>   domain would not have any such advantage. It is probably unrealistic
>        Cary Karp
>        Swedish Museum of Natural History
>        P.O. Box 50007
>        104 05 Stockholm, Sweden
>        Phone: +46-8-666-4055
>        Fax:   +46-8-666-4235
>        email: ck@nrm.se

Suppose there was .museu - what would your organization become?
nrm.se.museu?  swed-nrm.museu?  Why didn't you request museum.se and
then register nrm.museum.se and then organize all other museums in
Sweden to register under museum.se thereby making a very memorable
name, as well as identifying the nation where the museum is located?
Since almost every country has a museum of natural history, a
country identifier will have to be included.

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