The development of TCP/IP and Mosaic were breathrough applications. Mosaic
allowed people to navigate the web with greater ease and Nascape, easier
yet, opened the doors to rapid expansion of the Internet.
The parallel universe of TLDs needs either a breathrough application (a
mere click on the browser that allows people to select their choice of root
server operator) or breakthrough content that makes people want to
reconfigure computers to access that information.
>Right on Patrick;-)...
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>And a strategy of first making an egg is not likely to work out.
>First we need the chicken, and it will give us some eggs.
>If we also have a rooster;-)...\Stef
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>At 19:19 -0700 10/09/01, Patrick Greenwell wrote:
>>On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Ellen Rony wrote:
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>> > If there were killer content that is only available in the
>> > other-than-IANA-root, then people would quietly (or not) begin
>> > reconfiguring their computers to view it.
>>
>>It's a chicken and egg problem...
