Hi,
Just to add some support for new.net, I'm all for it! There is absolutely
nothing wrong with it, and indeed it does not violate any standards at all.
You're perfectly able to use whatever tlds you like for a "private" network,
and new.net is simply setting up their own private network. If people want
to use it, entirely up to them.
With regards to "standards" that whole argument is a bit specious in my
view, particularly with regard to using MS as an example. The internet was
not built on standards, nothing so radical is born if standards are
followed. People tried different things and then worked together when they
agreed on them. RFCs are simply what a body of people have agreed to use,
and if you want to communicate properly with them, follow the RFCs. If it
doesn't worry you, don't. If every company simply stuck to RFCs there would
be no world-wide web. Berners-Lee and co developed and tested the web before
the RFCs were written. You dream, you test, you propose, people follow if
they think its good enough. Good grief, there's hundreds of RFCs espousing
technology that's barely left a single university research department.
Without pioneers who try things new, nothing will ever change.
So new.net, good luck to you. If there demand is there, your business model
will work. If it's not there, it will fail. That's what business is all
about. Personally I feel ICANN, despite being a new organisation, acts like
a dinosaur. The technology to expand the GTLDs has existed for years. The
reason why ICANN doesn't do it is more for political and commercial reasons
than anything else. I predict that new.net will have some success, and
hopefully out of that success ICANN will be forced to either move forward
faster or a new coordinating body will be formed. And it won't be too soon.
David
