NNSquad - Network Neutrality Squad
[ NNSquad ] Moving Beyond Domain Names
Greetings. I'll make this short and sweet for a change -- though there will be *much* more to say later. This is really just a heads-up. After digesting the latest ongoing media reports on the possible re-re-re-consideration of the dot-ex-ex-ex TLD by ICANN (I've already pointed you at my 2005 open letter "Why 'Dot-Ex-Ex-Ex' is for Chumps" [ http://bit.ly/bRtaFj ], and Huffington gave a good summary of the situation today in http://bit.ly/9yRR0u ), I find myself again considering a rather radical concept. We may well have reached (or already passed) the point where we should be working seriously toward the ultimate elimination of domain names as the primary user-facing addressing aspect of the World Wide Web as perceived by most of its users. I won't even start down the lengthy list of relevant supporting arguments in this message, but I'm sure that many of you can cite your own without major prompting. Discussion on all sides of this topic is invited. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein lauren@vortex.com Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 http://www.pfir.org/lauren Co-Founder, PFIR - People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org Co-Founder, NNSquad - Network Neutrality Squad - http://www.nnsquad.org Founder, GCTIP - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance - http://www.gctip.org Founder, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein