Re: nettime: Paul Garrin

[Jack Jansen <Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl>]

> 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...
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