Re: Fwd: [ga] Public Comments Requested on DNS Stability: The Effect of New gTLDs on ,the Internet Domain Name System

[Karl Auerbach <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Christopher Anderson wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Christopher Anderson <significants@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Feb 8, 2008 8:33 AM
> Subject: Re: [ga] Public Comments Requested on DNS Stability: The
> Effect of New gTLDs on ,the Internet Domain Name System
> To: "GNSO.SECRETARIAT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <gnso.secretariat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> > One of the policy recommendations developed in relation to
> > the introduction of new gTLDs included the requirement that "Strings
> > must not cause any technical instability."
> (my translation of "technical instability" reads: ...
There has been talk about things like a .exe TLD - that might confuse 
certain software on certain operating systems to be confused into 
thinking that the named thing is somehow an executable file.
Of course that same exact issue exists on that same software for names 
ending in .com as well.
Hmmm, maybe I'll start up the ".htm", ."html", and ".php" top level 
domains and register "index.htm", "index.html", and "index.php" to 
myself. .... ;-)  That'll learn people to properly end their URL's with 
a slash.
                --karl--