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 <rasmus.wikman@gmail.com
> > 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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