Re: New TLDs and Registry charters

[Vince Wolodkin <wolodkin@digitalink.com>]

David Collier-Brown wrote:
> 
> Vince Wolodkin wrote:
> [in reference to categories in english only]
> > This being said, wouldn't numbers then, be more appropriate?
> 
>  Yup, if there were going to be hidden by the interface.  Alas,
> multilingual humans are more common the ones who have good
> memories for number->name mappings.
>   It would be cool (if you'll pardone the sun-ism) if the
> dns servrs were multilingual, so if I send a french query
> packet I don't get an english answer.
> 
> --dave

This kind of plays in to what i would REALLY like to see happen.  I
really think that to avoid any international conflicts, that domain
space would best be handled by the 2 hundred odd ISO TLD's plus .int.  

I think that every ISO TLD should have as reserved(belonging to the TLD
registry) the following SLDs - .com, .net, .org, .edu, .gov, .mil. 
These should have their original interpretations.  In addition,
trademark categories could be instituted as well.

I am not sure I have delved into this before on IAHC, so I will do it
again.  My domain is digitalink.com.  In my new system I would become
digitalink.com.us.  Of course, users in the US would still only need to
know the digitalink.com because when they looked up digitalink.com, they
passed along country=US and the DNS system returned the US entry.  So my
resolv.conf would look like:

domain digitalink.com.us
nameserver 172.16.0.150

The resolver libraries might not even need to be changed.  I think that
right now, if I used that resolv.conf to look up xyz.com and didn't find
it, that it would try xyz.com.us.  The point is, behavior already exists
to try and look up domain names by appending local site domain
information.

Anyway, lets say I look up xyz.com, I would get back my local(.US)
xyz.com.  This immediately could satisfy lots of international trademark
disputes.  In addition, though I hadn't mentioned it before, a Maryland
company and a Virginia company both holding local trademarks could be
xyz.com.va.us and xyz.com.md.us.  

This could be implemented very quickly by clearing up any
DNS/Bind/resolver library issues.  Hopefully, if it could be handled in
BIND, it could be implemented even more quickly.  In addition, records
currently in .COM would be placed in .COM.ISO based on the Organization
Country(InterNIC element 3f).  Some coordination would be necessary , of
course, but all things worthwhile aren't easy.

After all, what we are looking for here is a reasonable way to restore
sanity to a system that is rapidly breaking down.

Vince Wolodkin