From: "David E. Smith" <dsmith@prairienet.org>
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 14:58:39 -0800 (PST)
To: Damaged Justice <frogfarm@yakko.cs.wmich.edu>
Subject: Re: Metzger, Denninger square off
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At 01:24 PM 2/7/97 -0500, you wrote:

>[Forwarded from Wired news. Let's cut to the chase: Which side is in the
>right? Who can tell me, in plain and simple language, who is fighting for
>individual freedom and property rights, and who is not?]
Hee... I think they're both just after money.

>   5:01 pm PST 6 Feb 97 - A proposal by the International Ad Hoc
>   Committee (IAHC) to expand the number of Internet top-level domain
>   names is stirring opposition among alternative domain name providers.
Well, of course. AlterNIC does charge a few bucks for registering in
some of their TLDs.  I'm not sure about the other alternative-name
servers, but somehow I doubt it's a charity program.  And of course
we all know about InterNIC's cash cow...

[the proposed new TLDs]
.firm  
.store  Somehow, these two look rather similar to me.

.web    Actually a good idea :) A lot of the .com congestion is
        from companies that are virtually-hosted for the sole
        purpose of running a Web site with the www. prefix.

.arts   
.rec
.info   How many of these would fit into the .org (or even .us) domains?

.nom    Nah. Just not classy enough.  Now, a .nym TLD... :-)

>   They also think the new domain names will "fragment" the
>   Internet, leaving some users unable to communicate with others, if a
>   server does not recognize the name request.
How so?  AlterNIC et al. aren't exactly globally recognized anyway.
If we're going to have more TLDs, it's at least less "bad" to have them
coming from the place where names have been coming from anyway (InterNIC).
No matter what, it'll be a long time before _any_ new TLDs are
universally recognized, just because somewhere, someone's sysadmin
is asleep at the wheel.  (Probably at my ISP :)

dave
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