[P2P-F] www.yourdomain.open?

Thu Sep 15 17:20:53 CEST 2011

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 at 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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