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

[Roeland M.J. Meyer]

At 09:38 AM 4/1/99 -0800, Greg Skinner wrote:
>"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.

Technically correct. However, a TLD has additional marketing considerations.

>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.


yes, I expect that. By the same token, I expect that to also limit the rush
as not everyone has a trademark-able name.
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