Re: [wg-c] Give NSI .shop and take back .com

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>]

At 06:08 PM 4/20/00 -0400, John Charles Broomfield wrote:
>         I'll agree with you that ".web" as a generic sounds to me much
>betterr (more generic?) than ".shop". I'll agree that a lot of people would

My note did not state that .shop was superior.

It said that it had been more substantially reviewed.  That does not 
pertain to the question of how loudly or how long one or another person 
touts the string.  It has to do with the nature of a discussion that 
considers the merits of the string, and with the breadth of participation 
in that discussion.

The IAHC, itself, almost included it initially.  Hence it was rather 
carefully considered by that body of 12 people with quite diverse 
backgrounds.

Then, the public review if the IAHC list resulted in very, very strong 
feedback indicating that .shop was superior to .store and should be 
included.  Again, a pretty broad range of people participated in that open 
and public discussion.

Yes .web was also in that published list and, therefore, also 
considered.  However by virtue of being part of a controversy about 
adequacy of the initial list, .shop received much more focused discussion 
than any other candidate string.

d/


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