On Sun, 21 Sep 1997, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
Hmmm. Jim Dixon says not to create any more gTLDs and you are in
I didn't say that. I said that the existing gTLDs were created without giving much consideration to the existence of a world outside the USA. That was an understandable error; no one expected the Internet to become huge and important. But the proposal is to add new gTLDs without taking any realistic steps to deal with the fact that the gTLDs are international in scope. PAB/POC/CORE (why can't anyone give this thing a name??) are perhaps solving a US problem, but their solution doesn't deal reasonably with the international ramifications of their solution.
favor of the NSI solution, which means limitless gTLDs - each competing with the other - competing monopolies. Jim seems to be saying that this is a US problem
No ...
and it would appear that NSI's solution does not take into account non-USA interests.
That's not what I am saying at all. I am saying that the PAB/POC/CORE solution is designed to deal with the US problem and shows no awareness of the international dimension. The NSI solution may be even worse than the PAB/POC/CORE one, because it creates hundreds of new gTLDs, all with the same problems as .com, and (as far as I recall) makes no provision for any oversight of the resultant mess.
It would appear more to be in NSI's interest that it remain in control of com/net/org and let the new gTLDs fight for market recognition that NSI already has. How does that foster European interests? If I were a European - I would think to be against the NSI proposal.
What is in everyone's interest is slow, careful changes to the DNS. One of the problems (not the only one) with the PAB/POC/CORE design is that the group who made it were too US-centric and too heavily loaded with lawyers. A more technical and less US-dominated group would probably have come up with a better solution. A different one, anyway ;-) -- Jim Dixon VBCnet GB Ltd http://www.vbc.net tel +44 117 929 1316 fax +44 117 927 2015 -------- Logged at Sun Sep 21 18:08:29 MET DST 1997 ---------