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 <[log in to unmask]>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 > > > On 21/03/2011 4:06 PM, Milton L Mueller wrote: > > 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. > > > > *From:* NCSG-NCUC [mailto:[log in to unmask]<[log in to unmask]>] > *On Behalf Of *DeeDee Halleck > *Sent:* Monday, March 21, 2011 3:04 PM > *To:* [log in to unmask] > *Subject:* [NCSG-NCUC-DISCUSS] Tom Morris takes on xxx > > > > > http://blog.tommorris.org/post/3968125126/tel-xxx-and-mobi-are-all-pointless-and-idiotic > > read the comments too! > > dd > > > > > -- > > http://www.deepdishwavesofchange.org > > > > -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org -------------------------------------------------------------- -