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

[Bob Helfant <bhelfant@globecomm.net>]

You don't need to enforce it.  It will take care of itself for the most
part.  If you are promoting a movie and you need a website, you will use
.MOVIE not .CIGAR .  If there are enough meaningful TLDs, people and
companies will use the appropriate ones.  It won't be 100%, but nothing is.

Bob Helfant
GlobeComm

At 06:03 PM 12/30/96 -0800, Kent Crispin wrote:
>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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