At 02:37 PM 6/22/99 -0700, you wrote:
>"Richard J. Sexton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> There aren't any [people operating TLDs I haven't heard about].
>> But you're welcome t prove me wrong :-)
>
>>> What criteria would be used to determine what TLDs would be added to the
>>> root, and why should people who aren't added feel any differently than
>>> the people whose TLDs aren't added now?
>
>Hmmm. I thought the question was pretty simple. Are the set of all TLDs
>that people want added to the root unique? If not, whose TLDs get in?
They have to be unique or it's not mych use. Currently there are 2 conflicts:
.POL - the parties have been asked to resolve this among themselevs (RFC 1591)
.WEB - I think we all know what's going on there.
>Even if they are unique, which ones get added first?
My reading of RFC 1591 says it scales to all levels in the domain
tree, and it also says "first come, first served".
While the notion of a democratic process to determine who should
"get" a TLD is appealing in the face of it, that way there be dragons.
What if we all voted that amazon.com should be given to Brazilians?
>In either case,
>you have a situation that is inherently unfair; no less fair than the
>current situation (no new TLDs). Until a process is drawn up that everyone
>who wants to operate a TLD will agree to, I don't see how we would have a
>better situation than we have now (except for those people who are lucky
>enough to get their TLD in the root when they want it).
Or poeple choose their nameservice providers.
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