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Like the great thinker, contemplating our collective navel, we
are still striving for answers to the basic questions of life.
Who are we, why are we here. How many top domain names do
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Like most great questions, it's only silly because how
we answer the question is so important. There's lot's of
bad ways to answer the question. Getting any answer is not
the point.
Getting the right answer is.
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Or at least the fashionable answer. Trying to set policy
for top level domain naming for the entire globe is a little
like deciding the coordinate system for the entire Universe. |
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Yep, it's 1776 again, and the web needs a new declaration of
independence. The internet started out as a research
vehicle for the military. Got that? Universities.
DARPA. Companies are so busy trying to capitalize off of
the web, they're making our eyes bleed. Self proclaimed
advocates and wolves in sheep's clothing are rushing to our aid,
regardless of the price |
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Standards
are being created and obsoleted so fast, no one, not even the
vast zombie programmers of Microsoft can keep up with them.
Proletariat champion Netscape seems to worry more about market
share and the bottom line than living with the implications of
open standards. |
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And what are we left
with? A bag of forty two classifications of trademarks.
These are the guiding stars that light our way? Hmmm.
Maybe Douglas Adams was right. The answer is
42. |
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