Chance observations from a series of disinterested observers on ICANN's 44 applications. 1. Frightening the paucity of diversity, multilingualism or imagination. 2. Seems like gtld-mou replicants only make the list? 3. None of these people even played junior scrabble. 4. IATA's .air and WHO's .health have taken four years to appear from conception, an elephantine birth one hopes will be rewarded with real tuskers. ICANN's attempt to garner internationalism has an even longer way to go down the birth canal. 5. I feel sorry for Esther Dyson whose efforts to build some international consensus on the back of Dixon's IFWP ran into stony isolationism. 6. Still time for the substantial backers of ICANN to chart a path that not only includes the IP of the US but the rest of the world, too. if they're interested in more than the occasional senior pro-am. 7. Abril's nominalism (that the name of a thing constitutes the thing, most infamously met in Anselm's proof of God) disproven. MM ____________________________________________________ Josmarian (UK) Ltd http://www.josmarian.ch [EMAIL PROTECTED] UK tel: 07770947420/ fax: 0044.1273.474894 France tel/fax: 0033.450.20.94.92 Part of the Josmarian Group ____________________________________________________ If you have a technical problem with this e-mail, please mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] outlining the nature of the problem. CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE This e-mail transmission is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information which is privileged and confidential. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or the employee responsible for delivering this communication to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please forward it to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _____________________________________________________ James Love wrote: > http://www.icann.org/tlds/tld-applications-lodged-02oct00.htm > > And, many applications involve more than one string. Paul Garin's > Name.Space asks for the most strings. There are several non-commercial > TLD applications, and several applications that compete for the same > strings. Popular TLD strings are .biz (5), .kids (4), .tel (4), .inc > (3), and .nom (2). There are only 2 applications for .web, one of which > asked for three strings. > > There is one .union application, and one .museum application. The > co-op and .coop proposal is by the Cooperative League of the USA. > Novell is seeking .dir. Nokia is seeking eight TLD strings, including > mobile. The Association Monegasque des Banques is seeking .fin. The > Soci�t� Internationale de T�l�communications A�ronautiques is seeking > air. The International Air transport Association wants .travel. Core > is seeking .nom, but has competition from a 7 member group that includes > Lycos, .tv, Korean firms 7DC and SK Telecom, onlincenic from China and > the dotNOM consortium. > > Jamie > -- > James Love mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cptech.org > Consumer Project on Technology, P.O. Box 19367, Washington, DC 20036 > voice 1.202.387.8030 fax 1.202.234.5176 > > --- > You are currently subscribed to ncdnhc-discuss as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
