[ga] Engineers on TLDs: Do You Want Me With Fries?

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 All former DNSO GA members or other interested stakeholders/users,

  My response to: http://www.circleid.com/article/837_0_1_0_C/

This is an interesting rehash of arguments that
have been going one sense about 1999 when
ICANN was conceived.  Many of these different
approaches to new TLD's was discussed on the
no long defunct Domain-Policy list and the
neglected DNSO GA list forum, which the ICANN
Bod decided to shelve effectively in part
as a result of the disagreement as to the
adding of new TLD's amongst other hotly
debated DNS and internet related issues.

  I am not a 30 something engineer as I am
way past 40 yrs old and have been an
engineer for several decades now.  Yet
despite that, I believe and have for
quite a few years that the adding of new
TLD's need not be overly restricted as there
is no technical reason to have such a
restriction.  However as Vittorio rightly
eludes to, .biz and .Aero as examples
were silly nonsensical additions, along
with .museum and .name.  Yet Chris Amblers
.WEB had some marketing and descriptive
value as a new gTLD, but was rejected or
not seriously considered for reasons that
had little to do with making sense as
a new gTLD, but more for the reason of
strongly disagreeing with some of the
"Old Guard" whom have effectively captured
ICANN and the DNS in particular.

  It is now and has been very clear that
the addition of new TLD's of any type, will
be arbitrarily and nonsensically restricted
by the old engineers for they are indeed
suffering from NIH as Vittorio rightly
has observed..

Regards,
--
Jeffrey A. Williams
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