Re: Is stuttering the price to pay?

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

On Fri, 27 Dec 1996, Werner Staub 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"? 

tm from a global perspective will have to be run by some sort of
International TM authority.  Therefore it makes sense to put it under
.int.

> - Why recommend .com.<ISO 3166> or .co.<ISO 3166> SLDs 
> when most of the names registered under that 
> ISO code are commercial anyway? 

The good examples that uk and jp have produced of creating logical
categories of co or ac makes sense and works.  One of the main reasons
we are in this bind is that the USA never got its .us domain in order
and it never took off. We would like that American companies register
under .us and for that we wanted to elucidate the structure in a general
way so that any country could pick up the strcuture and run with it.

> -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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> Werner
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Hank Nussbacher
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