Reasoning: 1. All the pieces needed for a new "open" society exist, they just need to be drawn together. 2. The Internet is in fact a decentralised, distributed, peer to peer platform, no need to build a new one. 3. "Open" is the word we internationally use to describe this new way of cooperating. 4. What's missing is a central "authority" but the open movement can't have a centralised model because open is decentralised, non- authorative at it's core. 5. Top level domains (TLDs) are the highest authoritative level on the Internet. 6. With a sponsored top level domain (sTLD) an open non-profit meritocracy goverened body could oversee and distribute domains to open initiatives. 7. The rules for what is open would be open to discussion for the public. 8. The public could report abuse by non-open initiatives that have registered a domain under the TLD. Examples: university.open hardware.open software.open news.open etc Goal: Make it easier for those who work for the open movement to collaborate, and especially find projects to contribute to instead of starting new parallell projects, which I see as the main issue currently. Rasmus On 15 sep 2011, at 17.11, Michel Bauwens wrote:
thanks Rasmus, I'm copying this to our infrastructure discussion list as well,
could you elaborate?
Michel
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Rasmus Wikman <[email protected]
wrote:
Hi all,
wouldn't it be time for a ".open" TLD?
I think it would spur the open movement to even faster growth.
What do you think?
Rasmus
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