- From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) <clbullar@ingr.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 15:47:02 -0500
- To: 'Tim Berners-Lee' <timbl@w3.org>, "'www-tag@w3.org'" <www-tag@w3.org>
While agreeing in whole to the position that it is actively harmful to divide web addressing into device-centric domains, the comment .."it is unwise, as an architectural principle, to put semantics into names" is a little over the top if considered outside the context of web naming which it is assumed, subsumes any namespace used on the web (the tree model). In contrast to trademarks as brands, service or test marks are created precisely to assign semantics to a name typically through the pairing of the mark with conformance tests that prove that the test article is a conformant instance. In such an application of a name, a tight coupling of semantics and a name is the precise intent. Were service marks a tree system, one would encounter the problems you note. Good article. len From: Tim Berners-Lee [mailto:timbl@w3.org] In writing up some problems as I see them with the proposed .mobi top level domain, I found i had half the document full of general reasons why new domains are a bad idea, which would apply to many if not all of the new proposals, and the other half specific problems with .mobi. The writeup is at http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/TLD Comments welcome -- I intend to send it to the formal comment list next week. This is a personal view only. It is not a W3c view. I would recommend that others also send their feelings to the official list. Tim Berners-Lee ICANN Public comment form: http://www.icann.org/tlds/stld-apps-19mar04/stld-public-comments.htm RFP: http://www.icann.org/tlds/new-stld-rfp/new-stld-rfp-24jun03.htm General comments: stld-rfp-general@icann.org
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