Re: Thread 5: Defining the namespace

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

Hank.

> 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?

This is precisely why there are two TLD Classes to deal with this in my
draft. Loose registrations are assigned to gTLDs and administered by
sharing. For those TLDs where more tight control is required (because
of trademark or other considerations) the obvious solution is a single
registry with a specific responsibility to the community for that TLD.

> Or should we ignore that entirely and just hope that everyone opens a SLD in
> the proper place?

Unfortunately this has not happened, so it is unlikely to happen to any
degree of success in the future without the careful planning of the
overall growth of the name space.

> By using very generic gTLDs like .inet and .iway we eliminate thatproblem.
> Which is better?  I'd like to hear opinions on this matter.
>

You must allow anyone to register within the gTLDs, but most folks will
gravitate towards the correct category. You also introduce confusion to
the consumer by your particular "similar" TLD choices, wheras the
"Yahoo choices" make more sense.

Remember, the name space is not black and white, but can be
successfully administered is this is realised ahead of time.

:-)

Regards,

Simon

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