Re: [IFWP] Fwd: Re: Power Politics and the New Internet Order

[Greg Skinner]

"Roeland M.J. Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>Heaven's no! That's why I've kept talking about the "net gods" and the fact
>that www.xxx.yyy.zzz cannot be equal to www'.xxx'.yyy'.zzz'.  Once you
>(or somebody) factors in the fact that your "chartered TLD" is itself a
>private net, then all those problems disappear.  But so long as it's a TLD,
>by which I mean, not to lose communication here, it is on the same "level"
>as .com, .org, etc. (anyone not know what I mean by that?), the need to
>establish that "private" TLD in concurrence with ICANN and other god-like
>entities still remains, does it not?

Why must your secure domain be established as a TLD?  Any level of the
domain tree should be sufficient.

Furthermore, my guess is that if people start registering TLDs as trademarks
en masse, eventually we will have the root(s) filled with .ibm, .att,
.yahoo, etc.

--gregbo