I have been working on URL, Web address, ID\'s and Namespace since quite a long time and I have my reservations about the present set up being a complete network. generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs), country codes (cc), .co are all complicating the network, add to that the problem of address shortage plus other problem mentioned in comments and blogs at CircleID.
It\'s time for out of the box thinking.
From the work I have done I understand that registering should not be at the dot suffix level, it should be decentralized much like signing up on services and portals. This could solve a lot of problems of location; multiple users should be allowed to have the same Namespace, which could solve the John Smith problem once and for all and also of cyber squatting. ICQ was the first service which allowed multiple users to have the same Namespace but could not stand the test of time. The number they allotted was a mile long and not easy to remember. Nor did it solve the location and Domain problem (by Domain I mean communities and not TLDs).
Further we are nowhere near convergence a network for technologies and competing services, which could also cover cloud computing problems (I am no expert on this but cloud computing is being bandied for various functions) as first I read about cloud in this article from The Economist titled \"The beast of complexity\". Talking to Stuart Feldman the director of IBM\'s Institute for Advanced Commerce Quote \"Imagine, says the man from IBM, that you are running on empty and want to know the cheapest open petrol station within a mile. You speak into your cellphone, and seconds later you get the answer on the display. This sounds simple, but it requires a combination of a multitude of electronic services, including a voice-recognition and natural-language service to figure out what you want, a location service to find the open petrol stations near you and a comparison-shopping service to pick the cheapest one. Unquote Such convergence I am sure will never be possible in the present set up hence the Title of this comment \"Forget TLDs keep dot suffix and move on\"
