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Long-awaited DNS Report from National Academy of Sciences Released
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I thought that this committee had quietly ceased.
I can't find a link to the actual report via the URL provided in the main ICANNWatch item on this thread.
Here's a pointer to what I submitted:
http://www.cavebear.com/rw/nrc_presentation_july_1 1_2001.ppt [cavebear.com]
Ten new TLDs is still a significant artifical scarcity - it means in 100 years that we will have a mere 1300 TLDs. And that's in a system that we know can readily hold a thousand times more.
They are proposing essentially one TLD new TLD per month - with time off for two months of holidays. But in reality it takes only a few seconds to add a new TLD to a root zone file - faster if one bothers to create a bit of automation. I can hardly see a need for the rest of the time the committee thinks is needed to add a new TLD.
It sounds like the forces of Internet Ossification and stabilty-over-innovation wrapped in words of Uncontradictable Techno-ese have come to roost on the Internet as heavily as it came to roost on the telephone industry of the 1950's.
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Karl, it's TENS of new TLDs, not "ten". Multiple tens = anywhere from 20 - 90. Yes, that is still an artificial limit but anything over 20 is unlikely to constrain the market these days.
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