Re: [ga] gTLDs and the heretofore flawed ICANN paradigm

[sotiris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Danny Younger wrote:

> The taxonomic approach is not a real option. Over 40
> million legacy registrations, more than half of them
> in one TLD, make it impossible at this stage of the
> DNS?s development to ?rationalize? the name space by
> promulgating a classificatory TLD scheme. The name
> space can only evolve through accretion; i.e., by the
> gradual addition of new TLDs that meet naming needs
> not adequately met by existing names. Taxonomies and
> organized naming structures can and do exist within
> TLDs (as well as in portals, search engines, private
> keyword spaces, and digital libraries). But the idea
> of a global DNS taxonomy that divides the entire
> Internet up into neat little cubbyholes once and for
> all is an impossibility.

This requires clarification as it does not make any sense to me.  If the
issue is that the "taxonomic approach is not a real option" then what
exactly are the "naming needs not adequately met by existing names"?

Sotiris Sotiropoulos