http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/020110/n10212356_2.html The president of the group that oversees the Internet's naming system said Thursday that he favored creating new members-only suffixes, such as .edu and .museum, over unrestricted domains like .com and .info. M. Stuart Lynn, president of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, told Reuters that restricted ``top level'' domains open only to members of a select group such as schools or museums would likely pose fewer problems than unrestricted top-level domains open to the general public. ``A lot of the problems surrounding the new TLDs (top-level domains) are less in a sponsored environment,'' he said. Has to be the lamest reason I've ever heard. Sounds more like trying to find an excuse to do what the Corporate/IP interests would like, which is to see NO new unrestricted TLDs. They fought hard during Workgroup C to prevent open TLDs from being introduced, arguing for no expansion of the namespace. I think the quote in my sig reflects quite appropriately on this situation. -- Best regards, William X Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- "There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law. No artist ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth." -- Jean Giradoux
