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

[Jeff Williams]

Gregbo and all,

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.
>
> 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.

 I seriously doubt this.  Why?  Well the answer is simple.  Many
of these that you mention here, .Yahoo and .IBM would be refused
TM's for obvious reasons, as will many others...

>
>
> --gregbo

Regards,

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