[MLB-WIRELESS] more important issues <aka: guerilla radio is by ninjas, for ninjas. Worked for global IP's development!>

[Adrian Close]

On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Steven Haigh wrote:

> The idea I had for the new TLD of .wlan is because we know that we won't
> trip over something in the near future.

Can you give an example?

What will you do if ICANN decides to implement a .wlan TLD for real?  Why
not use something of a _real_ TLD and avoid the problem altogether.

> I'm quite willing to run root DNS servers off my equipment to serve
> these...

This is exactly what you _don't_ want to do.  Remember, the only reason
the Internet hangs together is consistency in things like global routing
tables and global DNS.  You don't want to mess with this.

I know .wlan is cute and I like the idea myself, but I can't see ICANN
giving it to us... :)  So let's use something we _can_ get and register in
the global DNS.  'wlan.net' is taken (porn site), but 'wlan.net.au' is
still available.  Or 'melbwireless.[org/asn].au'.  Etc.  (Mind you, we
don't want to get bogged down in arguing about what our [real] domain name
should be...)

We could do well to register something generically WLAN oriented and make
subdomains available to other like-minded collectives...  Brownie points
and kudos are useful in smoothing the way for other projects.

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