Workshop@ITU Opening the Namespace infrastructures to Competition

Sorry I got mixed up at this wee hour with   a reply  to the  list
Now the subject is correct.

Sorry for this late annoucement





* Opening the Namespace infrastructures to Competition *
*Open Questions : challenges and opportunities *

*Expert Workshop *
*http://net4d.org/18sep09-index.html*

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*The current situation concerning the Domain Name System is raising more 
and more interest as the end of the ICANN JPA 
<http://www.icann.org/en/jpa/> in September is approaching 
<http://www.fiercetelecom.com/story/icann-jpa-nears-end-legislators-concerned/2009-06-07>. 


Instead of engaging into bitter debates on how to co-manage a 
quasi-monopoly, an informal workshop is organized to explore whether 
there are any technical alternatives for the development of future 
information networks ?. Is there an effective solution to open to 
competition name resolving services. ?

This informal workshop <http://net4d.org/18sep09-index.html> is 
organized in the context of the expert mission 
<http://net4d.org/itu-expert-jul09.html> that has been recently 
contracted by ITU <http://www.itu.int> to Dr. Francis Muguet 
<http://knis.org/knis-list-muguet.html>. after his presentation, last 
May, at the WSIS Forum 
<http://www.itu.int/wsis/implementation/2009/forum/geneva/index.html> : 
Opening to competition the namespace infrastructure 
<http://net4d.org/net4d-geneva-may09.html>

This expert mission is in line with the outcomes of the last ITU Council 
Working Group on WSIS 
<http://www.itu.int/council/groups/wsis/index.html> , where ITU 
<http://www.itu.int/> was requested to study the evolution of the future 
internet.
The informal expert workshop <http://net4d.org/18sep09-index.html> is 
hosted at ITU headquarters, on Friday 18 September, which happens to 
occur after the European Dialogue on Internet Governance 
<http://www.eurodig.org> ( Monday 14 - Tuesday. 15 September ) and the 
IGF planning meeting <http://www.intgovforum.org> ( Wednesday 16- 
Thursday 17 September ) in Geneva

The workshop <http://net4d.org/18sep09-index.html>, organized by Dr. 
Francis Muguet <http://knis.org/knis-list-muguet.html>, is going to 
include in the morning, presentations and a round table, and in the 
afternoon, open discussions. *



  I proposed to implement /classes,/ called /_semantic classes_/ , where 
the legal and technological innovation lies in the fact that owners of 
domain names in TLDs in  those classes  are contractually obliged to 
follow the ontology specific to each TLD. ,  (SWTLD).
( or to lose their domain names.)
 It would be therefore possible to create semantic namespaces as zones 
where metadata may be trusted.

   it would be possible to implement semantic namespaces in a way 
independant from ICANN, 

As a consequence, it would, allow for far more relevant access to data 
than in full text and
 this would redefine the search engines' market and approach.
Each of those SWTLDs could constitute a very large open database and 
would empower M2M.

Logically it would seem that W3C shoud be entittled to co-manage  at 
least a few  of those semantic namespaces,
This would provide, by the way, some financial ressources for the W3C.

All the best

Francis Muguet

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