Re: Lost without Industry Associations or Specific Groups

[werner@axone.ch (Werner Staub)]

Michiel,

> >  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).

It takes quite some unintended surfing to find an airport via 
Yahoo: response time, unclear categories, etc.  And the 
directories hardly resolve the uncertainty about who really 
runs the site. Lets face it: TLDs stand as a type of "quality 
label".

> >  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.

Compared to the "normal" potential for name conflicts in any 
TLD, this is a piece of cake. A simple set of rules will do,
e.g. prerequisite of mutual consultation between cities with 
the same name, precedence for the internationally known 
original, etc. These cities, although "in the same business" 
have been able to live with one another for a long time.


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