Jack Jansen on Tue, 21 Jan 97 14:00 MET |
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Re: nettime: Paul Garrin |
> I try to keep an open mind/heart to Name.space > I must say it gets harder > I wouldn't mind some serious comments by others on this list I more-or-less share Rop's views on the issue. I made similar points to Paul: I like the political idea of Name.Space but I'm not happy from a technical point of view. Paul basically replied that the technical side was a non-issue. I think he's wrong here, but I may have too euro-centric a view (in Europe the upper domains provide some locality of reference, since people in country A are more likely to access addresses in country A, but in the US this advantage disappears, since the edu/gov/com toplevel domains probably have much less coherence). The new developments (coordinating with AlterNIC) also take away the nice anarchic feel the project had, since it appears to become quite a bit more business-like and centralized: basically a commercial version of NIC. Since a project like this is inherently disruptive, because it replaces a single set of agreements on what a domainname means by multiple interpretations, the return should be worthwhile. My feeling is that the return is less and less worthwhile... -- Jack Jansen | ++++ stop the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal ++++ Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl | ++++ if you agree copy these lines to your sig ++++ http://www.cwi.nl/~jack | see http://www.xs4all.nl/~tank/spg-l/sigaction.htm -- * distributed via nettime-l : no commercial use without permission * <nettime> is a closed moderated mailinglist for net criticism, * collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets * more info: majordomo@is.in-berlin.de and "info nettime" in the msg body * URL: http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/ contact: nettime-owner@is.in-berlin.de