--On mandag, oktober 03, 2005 09:53:06 +0200 Brian E Carpenter
<brc(_at_)zurich(_dot_)ibm(_dot_)com> 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.
Harald
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