Re: [ga] .REL gTLD and the fear of 'crackpotisim'

[Matthew Pemble <matthew@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Oh,

On 29 April 2012 18:40, Jeffrey Williams <jwkckid2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>  The civilised world would generally consider a home address in the USA to
>> be a very strong hint. Neither necessary nor sufficient but strongly
>> correlated (and, even, causal.)
>>
>
>   Perhaps so.  As I do not know or have a consensus on such I really don't
> know.
> I would personally agree that not necessary is likely correct, but would
> disagree
> as to sufficient given the equality of free practice of ones
> religion guaranteed in
> our Constitution.
>

It is not sufficient for a religion to be considered crackpot for it to
have a home address in the USA. Or, the corollary, not all religions with
home addresses in the USA are "crackpot". What do you think that usage
means?

>
>>
>>> After all the Vatican has it's own ccTLD.
>>
>>
>> Because the Vatican is, after all, a country. A small and rather
>> dependant one but it has its own Head of State, it appoints ambassadors, it
>> even has its own army.
>>
>
>   Yes the Vatican is a 'city state' and thereby recognized internationally
> as such justifying it's
> own ccTLD.  Still the Vatican is Catholic centric and as such does not
> broadly support all
> religions or denominations of same.
>

Well, duh?


> What on God's green earth has this got to do with the UN?
>>
>
>   I would have thought and do think the correlation is obvious.
>

It's not a correlation - even in the non-conventional meaning. Even the ITU
(the most connected arm of the UN) doesn't claim much responsibility in
this regard.

 But I see from
> your response I was sadly mistaken.  My apologies.   If the Vatican has
> it's
> own ccTLD because it is a 'city state' ergo as such deserves such
> accordingly,
> than it has a name space advantage accordingly as a result,
>

Goodness. A "name space advantage". How horrendous. We're back to "Williams
2012: the candidate for domain purity!", aren't we?


> yet it is the home/seat
> of the traditional Catholic religion/denomination of Christian religions.
>  Such seems
> to be an unfair or unbalanced situation in respect to the DNS TLD name
> space.
>

But it isn't the the TLD name space because it is a religion, it is in the
ccTLD name space because it is a country.


>  Ergo
> if fairness, balance, and theological equality are to be somewhat restored
> or otherwise
> achieved, .REL as a new TLD would go some distance in this direction.
>

Hardly. You'd need .budhha, .orthodox, .islam (or .sunni, .shia, .ismali
etc). Anglicans would have to move from anglican.org to .anglican.

 As the UN
> equality mandates require such
>

What UN equality mandates? Gender? "National or Ethnic, Religious and
Linguistic Minorities"?

M.

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