Quoting Rohan McLeod (rhn@jeack.com.au):
Rick Moen wrote:
Quoting Trent W. Buck (trentbuck@gmail.com):
............ much snipped: My point is that the major gTLDs are an international default assumption, much more than they are 'implicitly US-centric'.
Yes; well " " does seem logically ( in the sense of 'not specific to any nation') ; to be a good fit for 'international';
I hope you take no offence by my saying I am a bit puzzled by the concept of " " -- unless it's some sort of non-technical metaphor, in which case I'm honestly not sure what it refers to.
one wonders then, how the system would be extended to extra-terrestrial locations ?
Um -- other TLDs, I guess. By the time we have a multiplanetary civilisation, I suspect the current Internet will be at best legacy infrastructure, if not gone. Near earth orbit is not so far a network issue. (I once heard a good talk by one of the founders of the Internet about what he called 'interplanentary internets', but that talked about IP packet handling problems, not domain namespace.)