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Government Finishes Internet Study -- 7 years late
djp928 writes "A study commisioned by Congress in 1998 to report on internet traffic has finally been published -- 7 years, two presidents, and one internet boom/bust later.
Some of their findings include "DNS is good" and "We should probably have some more TLDs""
So they can investigate reasons to goto war in a couple of weeks yet to find out porn and slashdot waste alot of geeks time takes 7 years.
Ever get the feeling the people doing the study got addicted to slashdot?
I like muppets.
So basically, we had one dude getting paid $250k per year to surf pr0n and read /. all day long for 7 years, doing "research", until one day, a week ago, his supervisors remembered what he was there for and told him to report on his findings by today. So he pulled an all-nighter, cooked up "DNS is good" and "we need more TLDs", made liberal use of copy and paste, and published it.
A perfect example of your tax dollars at work. I sure am glad we aren't spending it on education or space exploration or something useful.
A couple new TLDs could be good. If they created a .sex domain it would make porn sights much easier to block. I agree that something like .museum is necessary but a couple that sector off specific parts of the net people want to steer their children or employees clear of would be good.
According to Wikipedia:
They seemed to have profitted from having the .TV TLD, so it's not all bad.
"Yeah, well, Dracula called and he's coming over tonight for you and I said okay."
More, unlimited TLD, please. There is no technical reason why we should restrict addresses to .com, .org, etc... just free up the whole thing and let people choose the name they want to associate to their ip.
The TLD we all need most of all: .sux
A place where no coropration is ever allowed to register their own trademark!
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
It also recommended those traffic-directing computers continue to be operated by volunteers, organizations and corporations around the world rather than governments.
This seems to be an important conclusion of the study, which the summary failed to mention...
TCP/IP was designed to be reduant incase of a nuclear war. It was never meant to be secure or high performance.
I think a new secure (non drm) and multimedia and fiber optic friendly replacement is needed. Also application level protocals could use some new standards as well.
For example Email is a problem that both phishers and spammers are taking advantage of. I heard about Dmail as a replacement for SMTP and Pop3.
I am thinking perhaps several levels of security servers similiar to dns servers producing encryption keys and authenticating phisher scams (maybe a legit business could get a unique key) and email addresses would be nice. Its also too easy to spoof an IP address. Maybe security in a new DNS model that hands out keys would be nice too.
However Internet2 which is being experimented with has its own set of problems. Internet2 mainly deals with IPV6. IPv6 supposed to be a little bit better but spammers and phishers could change their IP addresses by the hour to prevent being caught and being filtered out. We need a better replacement that is more secure and allows better application level embedding for external protocals.
If I were a politician I would do this just and have Darpa and a few companies and academics invest in a newer architecture.
More router friendly support would be nice too to deal with bandwith allocation for different kinds of services like VOIP and UDP media streaming.
http://saveie6.com/
So 3 problems I can see with DNS:
.com.tv .org.tv .net.tv)
1) ccTLD operators charging whatever they like
2) ccTLD operators not having a default naming polity (eg
3) Fake ccTLDs: yourname.uk.com
Lack of TLDs is not one I would personally worry about, personally I dislike TLDs, each country should really be aiming for it's ccTLD rather than have everyone fight over who gets the yourname.com
Gah! Why is it anytime someone brings up the Al Gore urban legend someone tries to exonerate Gore by pointing out the exact quote which is ALSO AN OBVIOUS LIE and doesn't exonerate Gore in the slightest from the incorrectness of his claim. No only can you not invent something after it already exists, you also can't "take the initiative" in "creating the legislation" that creates it either if it already exists in the first place before you got involved. I can't invent the wheel today. It's been done. I also can't start a committe that invents the wheel, nor can I start funding to have others invent the wheel. The wheel is already here.
And the internet was already there before Gore's legislation.
He lied.
Don't label something "offtopic" unless you know the topic well enough to tell what's on topic.
Ah yes, and no site with XXX content will ever use anything other than a .xxx TLD if it is the law. Just like I never get any spam from 419ers because it is illegal...
Maybe it would make sense to start promoting SLD's (Second Level Domains) So, boeing could get boeing.aero.com Embraer (a brazilian company who manufactures planes) may get embraer.aero.com as well as embraer.com.br. A person who hacks may get 3v1l7w1n.hacker.net And TV broadcasters can get HBO.tv.com and get a refund for the 50 m paid to Tuvalu. And everyone can be happy appending a ".com" to everything.
Yes, more irony. Isn't it ironic.
.org because I originally was just doing it as a hobby in my dorm room and then in my apartment. From 1997 through 2001 I wasn't making any money off of it. Only some donations and payments to keep things afloat for the benifit of the users. When I purchased suso.org back in 1999, I didn't really have any intention of making it more than a hobby in my free time, so a .org made since. Then ICANN came along with their rules for .org domains and suso.org was grandfathered in, like slashdot.org.
.net or .com would make more sense because we have incorporated into a for profit business. But unfortunately, two different domain brokers bought suso.com and suso.net at the same time that I bought suso.org and they want to sell them to us for several thousand dollars. Once we have that kind of money just floating around, we'll consider buying suso.net, but for now, its suso.org.
Anyways, we're a
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I would submit that
Pound! Bang! Bin! Bash! is this a shell script or a Batman comic?
I really don't take it as a lie. He was very intstumental in getting government funding for the internet. He was lobying for the internet as early as 1984. That was pretty farsighted to see the potential back then. It was also risky as there wasn't exactly a public demand for the internet in the 80's. Thus, he was truly championing the internet out of his gut feeling of it's potential and not to pander to a particular constituency. I believe the quote was taken from a talk show. He was not on the stump and repeatedly making the claim as the conservative media would have the public believe. Like it or not the Internet could not have become what it is today with out government funding. Al Gore was a big part of getting that funding.
I wanted eyry.com, but it had been snatched up as a four letter dictionary word by speculators. The same for eyry.net, so I ended up with eyry.org.
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:)
The same thing, but worse, happened with dochawk. Within days of my my first query for dochawk.com, it was parked. So I checked for dochawk.net, and it went. I took dochawk.org immedeiately on checking.
Given the timing, I can't believe that anything happened other than someone monitoring the lookups and snatching domains . .
But at least we're posting this on slashdot.com
hawk
I agree, too many TLDs is starting to be painful. Far from expanding the namespace, it just makes it easier to block everything .tv, .us and .ro, since they're full of crap.
.com, .net and .org were all restricted to commerical, networking and non-profit respectively (no country-specific limits on these), country TLDs were restricted to the country they're intended for.
.per for a personal site if it meant that .org wasn't full of people trying to sell me domains.
Bring back enforced registration rules!
No, seriously. I would be happy if
I would be happy to use
Last Fleeting Thought: Also, unicode domains are a horrible idea. Much as people may love being able to use locale-specific characters in the domains it doesn't help the rest of the world who wants to keep the internet useable.
How many people can read hex if only you and dead people can read hex?
.movie .radio .stock
.movie TLD, studios could register the title of the movie under that TLD. Sure, there'd be a few conflicts, but it wouldn't be that bad.
.radio TLD, but registering their call letters seems like a pretty good idea to me (many already have with .com anyway, but there's really not much consistency here).
.stock is the best choice here, but it'd be nice to be able to enter a company's ticker symbol and get their web site. For example, mot.com and hpq.com are owned by those companies, but again this isn't standardized. I'd expect this TLD to be used mostly for redirects to a more attractive domain name (notice how www.mot.com redirects to www.motorola.com).
Every movie has a web site, but there's no way you could possibly guess the URL to most of them. If there were a restricted
Every radio and television station is assigned call letters by the FCC (well, the station chooses, but the FCC actually assigns it). Stations usually also choose a name that they use for marketing, usually related to their call letters somehow. There would be quite a bit of overlap if radio stations could register their chosen marketing name under the
I'm not sure if
Again, these TLDs would be useless if they weren't carefully restricted, but if usage became common enough that you could expect the domains to be registered, it would probably be pretty useful.
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