Internet is an innovative free space, the shared property of its users. I certainly
acknowledge the interest of standardization, but thies ".tel" issue it reflects old
technical concepts from the past. If the owners - the market - decides to call
an internet phone a "phony", the gTLD ".phony" will become the fashionable TLD. If
everyone wants to have his own name as his phony name, one will forget about ENUM
and the like and will use "Joe.Smith.phony" as phone addresses. BTW why would telephone
services be different from web, mail, ftp services and need a spacial TLD?
Telephone
adresses should be tel://domain_name.com
All the ENUM story reminds me the X.25/X.75
standards, etc... ISO even became the Law in some places. The world has chosen another
way. Innovation and real life are seldom decided in comities.
Let the market develop
the way the users want it. What is the legitimacy of the ICANN in this process, while
denying elected people to share in it, retaining "interim" directors for 4 years,
already removing four directors from the decision process because they are part with
some appliants, ... who is left to decide who has some right to do it? please list
the names.
I suppose the result is DoC, but we do not even know who DoC will be
at that time ...