Re: Lost without Industry Associations or Specific Groups

[Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>]

On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Werner Staub wrote:

> However, at least .aid, .med and .law if not all of them must 
> be run by an appropriate international industry association 

> Talking about industry association or clearly-defined
> groups, I would like to suggest three TLDs for which I just 
> happen to know that there is a pressing need and for which
> no name conflicts can arise.

I have in the past suggested that a TLD, .CAT, be created for
international groups like this to operate registries for 3LD's.
For instance:

>  Currently, finding an airport on the Web is an 
>  adventure because the IATA codes cannot be projected
>  into a existing registry. Airport and airline addresses
>  can and should be guessable. There is _no_ potential
>  for conflict because the codes are already managed.

AIR.CAT

http://JFK.air.cat for John F. Kennedy Airport
http://CDG.air.cat for Charles-de-Gaulle (Paris) Airport

>  Each city has only one government (barring some 
>  unfortunate cases). Identical names are rare and 
>  up the Cities have already learned to live with them.

Who decides what constitutes a city? Here in B.C. the City of Greenwood
has a population of less than 100. Would Moscow, Idaho get moscow.city
or should it be reserved for the Russian city Moskva, popularly known as
Moscow? This is a bad idea. If you are going to use geography in the DNS
then copy either the .CA or the .US domain and build in the whole
geopolitical hierarchy.

>  http://Frankfurt.city  for Frankfurt-am-Main 
>  http://Frankfurt-Oder.city  for Frankfurt-an-der-Oder

Which of the three cities named Santiago gets Santiago.city ?

> .cci   - Chambers of Commerce and Industry directly or
>  indirectly affiliated with the International Chamber of 
>  Commerce in Paris  (http://www.iccwbo.org, not to be 
>  confused with the Internet Chamber of Commerce alias
>  www.icc.org). 

.CCI.CAT works here.


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