I think the silver lining on all this is that it does cause people at-large (excuse me) to ponder the whole issue.<div><br></div><div>We should be capitalizing on it by issuing a statement.</div><div><br></div><div>j</div>
<div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Nicolas Adam <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nickolas.adam@gmail.com">nickolas.adam@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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I've been having trouble understanding the general opinion on this.
What is wrong with more TLD?????? This, to me, is good PER SE. This
guy (Morris) goes on and on about how .xxx it won't change anything,
but, why would it have to change anything???? <br><div class="im">
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(31, 73, 125)">Tim Berners-Lee once made a similar
argument to me and after some back and forth he was forced to
admit that his view was largely aesthetic.</span><br>
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I'm one to give a whole bunch of consideration to
aesthetically-grounded points. But for the life of me, i cannot see
how technical people find TLD expansion inaesthetic. <br><font color="#888888">
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Nicolas</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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On 21/03/2011 4:06 PM, Milton L Mueller wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(31, 73, 125)">Same old
arguments we’ve heard thousands of times before. Where has
he been? It’s sad that so many technical people think that
they have a God-given right to impose their own
idiosyncratic notions of what names are allowable on the
rest of us. Tim Berners-Lee once made a similar argument to
me and after some back and forth he was forced to admit that
his view was largely aesthetic. He didn’t think it was nice
to “clutter up” the Top level. So BFD, Tim and Tom, a
distributed, decentralized medium evolves in messy ways –
love it or leave it. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt"> NCSG-NCUC
[<a href="mailto:NCSG-NCUC-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU" target="_blank">mailto:NCSG-NCUC-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU</a>] <b>On
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, March 21, 2011 3:04 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:NCSG-NCUC-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU" target="_blank">NCSG-NCUC-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [NCSG-NCUC-DISCUSS] Tom Morris takes
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<p class="MsoNormal">read the comments too!</p>
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