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Re: [ICANN-EU] IPv6, was: re-chartering this list: draft.



Dear Andy:




>>The problems we face now with the DNS
>>system are nearly 100% externally caused (mostly by a mix of bad
>>court decisions and legal theories and bad administrative practice),
>>and we can create new TLDs until we are blue in the face, these
>>problems won't go away.

>Objection. I agree about the reasons for the current problems,
>but not, that new TLD´s couldn´t solve any problems. I could
i>magine that new TLD´s take place under there own rules,
>policies and legal theories. So, next to the (not so new) idea
>of a TLD ".TM" for the trademark-owners, i could imagine
>".GPL" for everything under gnu public-license. We could even
>expand these to cultural and religious spaces, like ".ISLAM"
>(btw, they have no copyright & patent-laws ;), ".catholic"
>for everything under Catholic policy and so on.


Closed TLDs did not really work too well in the past,
like .org and .net being used for anything now.
The question is how to enforce "their own rules,
policies"?

best regards,

Andreas Fuegner

--
"chaos will reign" - MPAA lawyer Leon Gold in the lawsuit against 2600 cause
of DeCSS

Andy Mueller-Maguhn, andy@ccc.de, Postfach 640234, D-10048 Berlin, Germany
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