On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 10:29:03AM -0400, Dean Anderson wrote: > I have to digest the rest of this further, but I would say right away that > if I connect to http://ibm.tel, I'd probably expect to reach the VOIP > portal, where I could sign up for VOIP services from IBM. I'd expect that > a voip connection to tel://ibm.com would get me to the headquarters > switchboard, and that tel://ibm.tel gets me to the VOIP switchboard (ie > VOIP customer service). Hmmm ... For instance, Internet addresses ending in ".mobi" would allow sites built for the small screens of mobile phones. >From that reading I'd conclude they have no interest in registering another domain like ibm-mobile miscrosoft-mobile and so on, but rather have a new TLD where they could put ibm.mobi microsoft.mobi and so on. There is no need for a .mobi (and why the hell don't they use .mobile) domain in order to deliver optimized web pages/sites. IMHO all these have their origin in that the "semantic web" is at best a slow starter and they try to put sematics into the web by adding "semantic TLDs". So in the future we will see a lot more sponsored requests for new TLDs like >>insert index of yellow pages<<. \Maex -- SpaceNet AG | Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 | Fon: +49 (89) 32356-0 Research & Development | D-80807 Muenchen | Fax: +49 (89) 32356-299 "The security, stability and reliability of a computer system is reciprocally proportional to the amount of vacuity between the ears of the admin" _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf