Re: More Talk of a a Federalized Web

Federalised would be nice, except the web is international. A better start would be forcing the use of .us for ALL US domains to level the playing field to the standard as written.

IMO :)

Chris Beer (iPhone)

On 06/11/2010, at 3:56, Mike Norton <xsideofparadise@yahoo.com> wrote:

> On a federalized web, I could go to sirius.fcc, bp.epa, caltech.hhs, microsoft.law, and laidlaw.sec and check, respectively, this company's spectrum purchasing history, that company's conservation efforts, this school's medical record activity, that company's volume of legal data, and this company's public financial statements, and vice versa, while each company's marketing efforts I don't have to worry about, because I'm not at .com, I'm on the federal web! 
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> Michael A. Norton
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> From: Gannon Dick <gannon_dick@yahoo.com>
> To: Mike Norton <xsideofparadise@yahoo.com>
> Sent: Wed, November 3, 2010 5:33:47 PM
> Subject: Re: What if ... A Federalized Web
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> Outside the US, nobody knows what "FCC" means though ...
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> Wouldn't that be a problem ?  It would be nice to have a purl.org/usa/gov/xxx forwarding service though.  
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> --- On Wed, 11/3/10, Mike Norton <xsideofparadise@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> From: Mike Norton <xsideofparadise@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: What if ... A Federalized Web
> To: "Gannon Dick" <gannon_dick@yahoo.com>
> Date: Wednesday, November 3, 2010, 7:21 PM
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> operative word is "front man" - it would be interesting to be able to to traverse URLs such as google.fcc, nbc.fcc, yahoo.fcc, fox.fcc, etc. while doing the great service that FCC is supposed to provide.   SEO mavericks such as Google itself could then genrate such lists as "Top 10 Most Active FCC Companies" and likewise "Top 10 Most FCC Fined Companies" and Top 100's, etc.
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> Michael A. Norton
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