Tom Morris takes on xxx

[Joly MacFie]

I think the silver lining on all this is that it does cause people at-large
(excuse me) to ponder the whole issue.

We should be capitalizing on it by issuing a statement.

j



On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Nicolas Adam <nickolas.adam at gmail.com>wrote:

>  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????
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Nicolas
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> On 21/03/2011 4:06 PM, Milton L Mueller wrote:
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>  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.
>
>
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> http://blog.tommorris.org/post/3968125126/tel-xxx-and-mobi-are-all-pointless-and-idiotic
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> read the comments too!
>
> dd
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