Re: Thread 5: Defining the namespace (was Re: Thread 1: Sharing)

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

At 02:25 PM 12/29/96 -0500, Alan Sullivan wrote:
>Hi,
>If we intend to have shared registries - and assume we are going to have
>a central authority for dividing ip the name space - let's have at it.
>>From looking a Yahoo - where they do use the library science approach -
>the following categories emerge:
>
>   * Arts and Humanities - .arts       * News and Media [Xtra!] - .news
>     Architecture, Photography,           Current Events, Magazines, TV,
>     Literature...                        Newspapers...
>
>   * Business and Economy - .com 	* Recreation and Sports - .rec
>     Companies, Investments,              Sports, Games, Travel, Autos,
>     Classifieds...                       Outdoors...
>
>   * Computers and Internet - .net      * Reference - .ref
>     Internet, WWW, Software,             Libraries, Dictionaries, Phone
>     Multimedia...                        Numbers...
>
>   * Education   - .edu                 * Regional - .geo
>     Universities, K-12, College          Countries, Regions, U.S.
>     Entrance...                          States...
>
>   * Entertainment - .ent               * Science - .sci
>     Cool Links, Movies, Music,           CS, Biology, Astronomy,
>     Humor...                             Engineering...
>
>   * Government  - .law                 * Social Science - .soc
>     Military, Politics [Xtra!],          Anthropology, Sociology,
>     Law...                               Economics...
>
>   * Health [Xtra!]  - .med             * Society and Culture - .cult
>     Medicine, Drugs, Diseases,           People,Environment,Religion...
>     Fitness...

I would assume some sort of gTLD charter would have to be written so that
everyone knows what belongs in each gTLD.  But how do you enforce it?  What
is to stop a news agency from wanting to register a .net SLD?  Or should we
ignore that entirely and just hope that everyone opens a SLD in the proper
place?  By using very generic gTLDs like .inet and .iway we eliminate that
problem.  Which is better?  I'd like to hear opinions on this matter.

>Alan Sullivan -- Top Domain Registry Inc.
>1550 Rush-Scottsville Rd.
>Rush, NY 14543 
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Hank Nussbacher
IAHC member
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