Quoting from Piet Beertema's message:
The case for more TLDs is largely based on vague and unattributed generalisations of the "there is a perceived need..." and "it is considered undesirable..." variety. More ominously, we are told that "market forces dictate...". If "the market" is to govern the Internet, and dictatorship is its avowed form of governance, then it is pointless to circulate drafts, let alone comment on them. Right, and the interesting, though sad, thing is that all those official "Internet bodies", who are supposed to keep the Internet *technically* healthy and running, at least *seem* to be backing this nonsense and thus to be trading in technical arguments for commercial ones. The penultimate consequence of market force dictation will be that all current 1st level domains (or 2nd level where there are "artificial" 1st level domains) will be replaced by top level domains. Back to uucp times...
Piet
Piet, don't you think it is the case to send your opinion, which I fully agree, on the tld-admin@ripe.net list, so that also Jon Postel can read it? Blasco ---------- ---------- Antonio-Blasco Bonito E-Mail: bonito@nis.garr.it GARR - Network Information Service c=it;a=garr;p=garr;o=nis;s=bonito c/o CNUCE - Istituto del CNR Tel: +39 50 593246 Via S. Maria, 36 Fax: +39 50 904052 I-56126 PISA Telex: 500371 CNUCE I Italy Url: http://www.nis.garr.it/nis/staff/bonito.html ---------- ----------