Re: War of Internet Governance: 1995 -????

[Bob Allisat <tor@wtv.net>]

Kent wrote:
>>another.  .per, for example, is the 3 letter abbreviation for Peru.
>>If the government of Peru made a claim for that name, perhaps they
>>should get it.  Without any *policy* defined the fact that you have
>>running registries is meaningless.

Don replied:
:There are a infinite number of hypothetical problems you can dream
:up.  COM is the three letter ISO country code for the Comoros Islands.
:  So what?

Bob Shaw (robert.shaw@itu.int) wrote:
> I'm sure that you can find all types of justifications why ".per", the
> ISO 3166 alpha-3 code for Peru should be allocated to you, Jay Fennello/ 
> Iperdome, a United States "entrepreneur" [see www.iperdome.com/investor 
> information].
> 
> However, I hope you would be able to imagine the sort of outcry if 
> ".usa", the ISO 3166 alpha-3 code for the United States was allocated to a 
> "Peruvian entrepreneur". 
> 
> Indeed, names have interesting properties. I'm sure you were there
> at this last summer's ITAA/ISA/CDT conference on domain names in Washington, 
> D.C. when a Canadian representative listed about 5 or 6 gTLDs that he 
> considered to "all be abbreviations of Canada", and therefore "should only 
> be available to Canadians". 

 I have advocated advocate preserving all
 two, three and four character alphanumeric
 TLDs for non-commercial global use. The
 problem is .COM, .NET and .ORG are already
 commodities for sale. Furthermore CORE is
 about to unleash it's five other (lame)
 competitors to .COM. And .WEB among 
 other TLDs are in the process of becoming
 commercialized by Ambler and company.

 Which all means that most of the new Domain
 names by extension may well be pure commercial
 entities. Such is life - imperfect. So not
 only is .PER open for similar use so to are
 the others. That some may create charitable or
 non-profit Registries (like FREEnic with .FCN,
 .WTV and more TLDs) is also okay. Imperfect.
 World. Bobs of the world should have learnt
 to live with that fact by now.

 Making true room for individuals + small business
 by lowering fees, including non-profit groups by
 eliminating fee requirements, instituting truely
 democratic and open practices will more than create
 a truely universal playing field... it will mean
 DNS governance would finally be in tune with the
 Internet and the way it's people work.

 Right now CORE is a bust verging on dissolution.
 That is not altogether bad In My Humble Opinion
 if the result is something highly better.

 TeleVirtually Yours,

 Bob Allisat

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