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Imagine our city without Zucotti Park, or any public park for that matter.
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===Imagine our city without Zucotti Park, or any public park for that matter.===
  
Imagine our city without any public spaces, public transportation, public education, law enforcement, sanitation; in other words a city that didn't serve the PUBLIC INTEREST. Today we have an entire city government to look out for public needs - 300,000 workers!
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Imagine our city without any public spaces, public transportation, public education, law enforcement, sanitation; in other words a city that didn't serve the PUBLIC INTEREST. Absurd of course. Today we have 300,000 city workers looking after our needs. And we have a robust civic life with block and civic associations, community boards, church, social, and ethnic groups, sports teams, and more, all networking residents.
  
But if we're not careful, the public interest won't be served in the digital city that's arriving as soon as 2013 - the city created within the .nyc Top Level Domain, or TLD.  
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As things now stand, we'll have none of these commons spaces on the .nyc TLD.
  
we might not have  considering throwing away the PUBLIC INTEREST in developing planning to raise some quick needed cash for the city, and throw away the public completely . We need to get involved now in order for that not to happen.  
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While city government has expressed an interest in acquiring the .nyc TLD, its not yet figured out how to engage the public in a meaningful way in defining and developing our digital future. On this wiki the Internet Society's New York Chapter presents a channel for gathering and communicating the Internet community's desires for New York's TLD.
  
There are only 43 more days before the city throws the public interest in the top level domain of .nyc away. And why?! Because we are not getting involved.
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Now's the time to get involved, to let New York City's government know how we want our city's TLD to serve the public interest, and provide a digital infrastructure for the coming era.
 
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We need to get involved, to let New York City's government know what we, the people want to be able to do for ourselves, for our city and for other cities around the world, on our .nyc – New York City's TLD.
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==Questions==
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* What TLD will best serve New York? Should it be .nyc, .newyork, or .newyorkcity?
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* What governance process would you like to see for our TLD?
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* What do you think of the sustainability of New York's TLD?
  
 
==Some Resources==
 
==Some Resources==
  
* [http://nycwiki.org The NYCWiki for neighborhoods]
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* [http://nycwiki.org The NYCWiki for neighborhoods] - A collaboration between the Internet Society-NY, Wikimedia's local chapter (Wikimedia is the publisher of Wikipedia and other commons resources). and Connecting.nyc Inc. Its goal is to do for our city's neighborhoods what Wikipedia does for general information.
* [http://newgtlds.icann.org/ ICANN's New TLD Site]
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* [http://newgtlds.icann.org/ ICANN's New TLD Site] - See the application process for acquiring a new Top Level Domain.
* [http://Connectingnyc.org Connecting.nyc Inc.]
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* [http://Connectingnyc.org Connecting.nyc Inc.] - A NYS not-for-profit created to advocate for the development of New York's TLD as a public interest resource.
* [http://nyshare.org NYCShare.org]
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* [http://nyshare.org NYCShare.org] - A site created by the city's Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications for presenting and engaging the public in decision making processes. Little used, it's one of the channels we'll use to present your ideas to city government and the public.
  
 
==References==
 
==References==
  
 
* [http://law.fordham.edu/assets/LawReview/Grimmelmann_Vol_78_May.pdf The Internet is a Semicommons] - James Grimmelman, Fordham Law Review, May 2010  [http://laboratorium.net/archive/2010/06/01/the_internet_is_a_semicommons]
 
* [http://law.fordham.edu/assets/LawReview/Grimmelmann_Vol_78_May.pdf The Internet is a Semicommons] - James Grimmelman, Fordham Law Review, May 2010  [http://laboratorium.net/archive/2010/06/01/the_internet_is_a_semicommons]

Revision as of 22:31, 2 December 2011

First Generation TLDs New Intuitive TLDs
.com, .org, .edu, .gov .nyc, .google, .ibm, .berlin, paris

Imagine our city without Zucotti Park, or any public park for that matter.

Imagine our city without any public spaces, public transportation, public education, law enforcement, sanitation; in other words a city that didn't serve the PUBLIC INTEREST. Absurd of course. Today we have 300,000 city workers looking after our needs. And we have a robust civic life with block and civic associations, community boards, church, social, and ethnic groups, sports teams, and more, all networking residents.

As things now stand, we'll have none of these commons spaces on the .nyc TLD.

While city government has expressed an interest in acquiring the .nyc TLD, its not yet figured out how to engage the public in a meaningful way in defining and developing our digital future. On this wiki the Internet Society's New York Chapter presents a channel for gathering and communicating the Internet community's desires for New York's TLD.

Now's the time to get involved, to let New York City's government know how we want our city's TLD to serve the public interest, and provide a digital infrastructure for the coming era.

Questions

  • What TLD will best serve New York? Should it be .nyc, .newyork, or .newyorkcity?
  • What governance process would you like to see for our TLD?
  • What do you think of the sustainability of New York's TLD?

Some Resources

  • The NYCWiki for neighborhoods - A collaboration between the Internet Society-NY, Wikimedia's local chapter (Wikimedia is the publisher of Wikipedia and other commons resources). and Connecting.nyc Inc. Its goal is to do for our city's neighborhoods what Wikipedia does for general information.
  • ICANN's New TLD Site - See the application process for acquiring a new Top Level Domain.
  • Connecting.nyc Inc. - A NYS not-for-profit created to advocate for the development of New York's TLD as a public interest resource.
  • NYCShare.org - A site created by the city's Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications for presenting and engaging the public in decision making processes. Little used, it's one of the channels we'll use to present your ideas to city government and the public.

References