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

  • To: ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Richard Henderson <richardhenderson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re: [ga] gTLDs and the heretofore flawed ICANN paradigm
  • From: Joop Teernstra <terastra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 13:02:09 +1300
  • Cc: Danny Younger <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>, sotiris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • In-reply-to: <001801c6047e$f3bd07c0$312cfd3e@richard>
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At 10:31 p.m. 19/12/2005, Richard Henderson wrote:

Agreed, search can find out much of what you'd need to know anyway, but I do
think that some kind of 'zoning' taxonomy like this for TLDs would be
helpful, as part of the future development of the namespace... not a
constraint but a support.


Richard,

Thanks for clarifying that compliance with the "zoning" would be voluntary.
This is generally not a feature of zoning laws. :-)

Zoning laws are born from the desirability/necessity of separation within the constraints of a physical space.

The Namespace does not have such  constraints, so why use the analogy?

The original idea of ccTLD's was to add useful geographic information to a Domain Name. An unforeseen side effect was that governments started demanding sovereign rule over them.

I think there is room for TLD's that convey specific legal rights *to* their registrants rather than over their registrants.

The market for them may group them into specific legal "zones", but you might as well use another term.



-joop-



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