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(Belated) Response to Tim Berners-Lee on New TLDs
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Here's a pointer to my own comments on the original note - Techies wanna do policy [cavebear.com]
In that note I come to the conclusion that many technologists look fondly back to some imagined era of halcyon bliss on the internet. Some of those who once lept past the status quo and invented are now using technical arguments, often faux-technical arguments, to restrain those who which to leap past today's status quo and innovate further.
We know fully well that the domain name system can support litterally millions of top level domains. So even an approach that is conservative upon conservative would allow one new TLD per week. At that rate it would take thousands of years to get to what we know today are technically viable numbers of TLDs.
Between aging technologists (myself included) and those (such as the intellectual property industry) who have perceived a short-term economic interest in internet stagnation there are mighty forces linked up against not only the free interplay of economic forces on the net but also against the development of any new technology unless that technology is rendered inert, sterile, and unlikely to contain innovative forces to disturb the status quo.
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| - Re:Pointer to my own response from May of this yea
by Anonymous
Tuesday November 02 2004, @02:34PM
- Re:Pointer to my own response from May of this yea
by Anonymous
Wednesday November 03 2004, @04:31AM
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Perhaps many names will confuse you, but is it right for you to impose your own subjective judgement on everyone else? If you can be emperor of the internet then why can't I or why can't Fred down the street?
The subject nature of your objection contains the seeds of its own failure - the absence of enunciated and reasonbly objective principles that underly your objection render any idea of governance unworkable.
Going directly to your assertion that adding a new TLD a week will add to confusion - remember that means that by year 2054 we would have less than 3000 total TLDs - In .com there are more than 3000 name changes a day. And nobody is arguing that .com should be shut down because it is confusing.
In Orwell's 1984 the English language was 'simplified' into NewSpeak - should we reduce the domain name space in the same way in order to reduce confusion. Sould we remove the letter 0 and digit 0 from domain names because they might be considered confusing?
And if confusion is the metric, then ENUM is certainly a no-starter.
We do not impose limits on the number of names that one can put on detergent and toothpaste - there is a simple self-corrective force - if people can't remember the name then the product will fail. Similarly, the burden of establishing a memorable name in the domain name system should not be imposed on the DNS itself but rather should be part of the well known job of "building the brand" that has been done by vendors for ages.
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The ISOC Taliban Religious Zealots Define Reality
There are 52 members of the ISOC Taliban. They are
religious zealots. They have spent years defining
reality for netizens. People with more technical
skills and in some cases more historical time on
the net are able to see right thru their charades.
The average netizen does not have the time or
experience to see (understand) what has been going
on. Many humans also do not care. They have better
things to do. Their reality consists of meat-space
challenges, like feeding their children.
One could go thru all 52 of the ISOC Taliban
Religious Zealots and explain in great detail the
last 30 years of their life on the net. There
are common patterns that emerge. One of the most
important common traits is their willingness to
tell "The Big Lie" to defend their party line,
no matter how far from the truth they have to
stray. They do not view it as a lie, they view
it as reality. They collectively define the
reality and then all defend that reality no
matter how untrue. Their collective actions
DEFINE them as a group. They really believe their
own lies. They also derive pleasure from seeing
the masses attempt to challenge their aristocracy.
Since they are well-funded by the masses, they
have an unlimited ability to travel to any
venue to sit and pontificate "the Big Lie".
There is an unlimited number of people willing
to also travel to *watch* the deliberations.
The funding and the spectators combine to convince
the ISOC Taliban Religious Zealots that the
reality they have defined is also accepted by
the masses. They label that consensus. They label
themselves to be "the community" and attempt to
claim the masses are part of their closed little
club.
People occasionaly note that one of the main
features of America is a separation of Church
and State. That is not possible with the ISOC
Taliban Religious Zealots. They are cut from the
same cloth that people see blanketing the Middle
East. It is ironic that Americans spend time and
resources making sure the Middle East does not
move to their soil, yet, their Internet is ruled
by the same style religious zealots. It is not
ruled by truth and free market forces.
Until future generations become educated and
enlightened with past historical examples of how
the ISOC Taliban Religious Zealots operate,
nothing will change. You are forced to live in
the reality defined by 52 people who have no
intention of changing that reality. It is not in
their best interest to change that reality. If
you change "The Big Lie" to the truth, they
cease to exist. You can continue to be their
prey or you can walk away. The choice is yours.
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Paul Twomey appears to be seeing the light.
His checks which are sent to his off-shore
tax haven come from "The ICANN Community".
He is going to work out a strategic plan to
make sure he is funded for 3 more years
while he works on his next gig up the food
chain in the ISOC empire in Geneva Switzerland.
http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-31 oct04.htm
"ICANN is preparing to release a proposed three year Strategic Plan. This Strategic Plan sets the direction and establishes the three-year goal for ICANN's Staff and Operational Functions. It has been prepared by the office of the ICANN President and CEO in consultation with ICANN's Board of Directors and after receiving input from the ICANN community. The final Plan will be completed after further consultation involving the ICANN Community."
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ICANN's Dictator Vinton Cerf Pulls in the Fences
Faced with the defeat of President Heinz and now
faced with the reality of four more years dealing
with the Bush administration, ICANN Chairman
Vinton Cerf is posturing to make ICANN look small
and no longer a focal point. He is also ready
to move up the food chain with his ISOC to the
Geneva-based forums, where President Heinz would
have been a visible player. Maybe Mother Theresa
will be at Vinton Cerf's and Dave Farber's sides
as they move on, beyond ICANN, in their quest
for world domination.
http://www.circleid.com/article/795_0_1_0_C/
"The world needs an effective and well-supported ICANN but the participants in the World Summit on the Information Society and the Working Group on Internet Governance now need to turn their attention to the full panoply of public policy issues that, as discussed above, lie outside the mandate of ICANN."
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