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

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Karl and all,

  This all gets to the absurd idea of "Confusingly similar" as being
some sort of "technical instability".  Of course only a lame individual
would consider such as valid.  Anyway, we have been here
before, same game, different day.

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Karl Auerbach wrote:

> 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--