--On mandag, oktober 03, 2005 09:53:06 +0200 Brian E Carpenter
<brc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> JFC (Jefsey) Morfin wrote:
>> http://www.neustar.com/pressroom/files/announcements/ns_pr_09282005.pdf
>> Comments welcome. Is it to be understood as an alt-root? or is it a
>> legitimate hower single operator?
>
> Neither. .gprs appears to be a private pseudo-TLD inside a walled
> garden for GPRS operators. It doesn't have anything to do with
> the Internet's namespace. .3gppnetwork.org appears to be a
> perfectly normal Internet 2LD.
Note that I regard the GSMA board's insistence on ".gprs" as
an incredibly stupid move. If someone proposes to register
".gprs" in the global root, ICANN will have to do the same thing
they did with ".biz" and disregard anyone operating a "toy
domain" within their own walled garden.
And if they choose to register ".gprs" in the global root, those
who have depended on accessing information from the GSMA "private
root" and the global root simultaneously will be in a world of
pain.
Until that happens, the only pain felt to the Internet at large
will be from the usual leakage of private names into global
contexts.
To illlustrate how stupid, this is the second .gprs running within
a walled garden I hear about. A couple of years ago one was running
in europe as well, next to the .umts domain. It might still be
running as far as I know.
jaap
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