Re: Thread 5: Defining the namespace

[Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>]

On Thu, 26 Dec 1996, Simon Higgs wrote:

> If the committee can't divide up the name space in a meaningful way,
> they have fucked up their number one goal, which is the consistent
> administration of the name space.

The namespace cannot be *DIVIDED* up in a meaningful way. Your statement
implies that the namespace is some sort of unitary thing and the only
problem is to find where the natural divisions lay. 

But it's not like that at all. The IAHC will not be dividing up anything.
They will be CREATING a namespace. And if they do a good job there will
be significant overlap between the gTLD's in the sense that people will
not feel restricted to only one possible gTLD choice.

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