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Re: Is stuttering the price to pay?

At 01:19 AM 12/27/96 +0100, you wrote:
>Originally, the creation of new top level domains was 
>about making them smarter and more flexible. But now:
>
>- Why ".tm.int" when it can be ".tm"? 
I see reasons both ways. .tm doesn't belong to anybody. But tm.int (or .mnc
or .mne for multi-national corp or enterprise) says something about the
non-national nature of the tm owner -to set it aside from .com which is now
very ambiguous.

>- Why recommend .com.<ISO 3166> or .co.<ISO 3166> SLDs 
>  when most of the names registered under that 
>  ISO code are commercial anyway? 
Because not all are, and .com.xx or .co.xx can be searched/retrieved on.

>- Why specify the same rules for all gTLDs? There are
>  obvious needs for gTLDs which can be managed by
>  existing transnational professional associations which
>  are best placed to determine their own rules.
yes and no -- standards are needed for all kinds of reasons. Again, my only
vested interest is search/retrieval. Stds make that easier.
>
>We (current internauts) will eventually get used to the 
>stuttering of domain names and the bureaucracy needed
>to get a name. But what about normal people?
>They certainly didn't like X.400 email addresses.
>
Is it: La vie est plus triste qui gaie? 

>
Wallace Koehler
willing@usit.net
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