Re: Lost without Industry Associations or Specific Groups

[Michiel Boland <boland@diva.nl>]

Werner Staub wrote:

> However, at least .aid, .med and .law if not all of them must 
> be run by an appropriate international industry association 
> - or just a loose group of national associations - 
> if IANA, ISOC and the IAHC don't want to get into big 
> trouble.

So, the next step then is to decide on a set of criteria by which one can
unambiguously determine whether or not any given TLD should only be run by
an `appropriate international industry association' or not. 

Not a very light task, I would think.

[...]
>  If the IAHC understands this early enough, people will 
>  simply be able to type 
>  
>  http://JFK.air for John F. Kennedy Airport

The fact is that people are just too lazy to type *anything* these days.

These sort of things should be handled via global directory 
structures (a la yahoo).

>  http://Geneva.city as an alternative to www.geneva-city.ch

This is bound to introduce problems. There are quite a few cities around 
the world with identical names I would guess.

You just cannot go about creating nice & short names without 
ever running into name clashes.

Cheers & happy MCMXCVII

Michiel (ex-lurker :)

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