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

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

Michael Dillon allegedly said:
> 
> On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
> 
> > 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? 
> 
> You don't. Even the current .COM, .NET, .ORG classification was impossible
> to police so they gave up trying. 

Hardly a fair comparison, though -- .com, .net, .org are so general 
that of course many entities could easily fit in any one of them.

If there were 20 or so more specifically defined categories it would
be much easier to categorize onself. 

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