Hello, As a quick followup to my prior comments:
http://forum.icann.org/lists/new-gtlds-pdp-comments/msg00005.html I wanted to provide a graphical representation of the choice between many new gTLDs, vs few new gTLDs. A good representation of an internet with many gTLDs would be: http://www.kirikos.com/media/many_gtlds.jpg An internet with few gTLDs can be represented by: http://www.kirikos.com/media/few_gtlds.jpg If the folks who are making submissions simply click on the "My Computer" icon on their desktop, or "Finder" (on a Mac), or take a look at their own desktop, they can get a sense of whether we need thousands of new gTLDs, or whether a smaller number is better. The DNS is a hierarchical naming system. If we look at the analogy between the DNS and our own computer desktops, the "root" would be comparable to our desktop (or the top folder in our computer hard disk). I think most ordinary users would find the "many gTLDs" image to be cluttered, disorganized, irrational, non-sensical, and not a good model upon which to design a system to be used by billions of users. People who are advocating thousands of new gTLDs presumably have desktops that look like that -- scary! It's been good for the internet that ICANN has resisted the urge to pollute the purity of the namespace with a design of that nature. If one read my prior comments about an "Ascension allocation method", a quasi-gTLD that got promoted to the root would be comparable to having a subfolder on one's computer that gets accessed very often, and gets large enough to deserve having a "Shortcut" created on the Desktop of the computer. If we look at two other models of information organzization, namely the "Library of Congress Classification Outline (LOC)" and the "Dewey Decimal System", they too show the advantages of a hierarchical structure with relatively few top nodes. The LOC structure can be seen at: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/lcco.html and has 21 top levels. [as an aside, reserving the single letter .com domains for the Library of Congress might be a nice idea, to allow them to create an information index based on their classification system] The Dewey structure can be seen at: http://www.lib.duke.edu/libguide/fi_books_dd.htm and has 10 top levels. These are 2 proven designs that have been used by hundreds of millions of people worldwide. I hope the above has provided useful input to show the advantages of a system with few new gTLDs, instead of one with many new gTLDs. Sincerely, George Kirikos http://www.kirikos.com/ _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
