> The most important TLDs are transnational, and their trust hierarchies back into corporations (corporations, I will cheerfully and without irony point out, who are subject to the whims of the FVEY IC).
Are they? I always thought that .com, .edu, .net et al. are American. I suppose one could argue that .eu is transnational, although the EU are trying very hard to invent their own postmodern nation.
> It's jingoistic, suggesting we should base trust decisions not on technology or even, really, on policy, but rather on nationalism.
It's not really jingoism, although it might be nationalism. And is it even nationalism, when each nation-state makes its corporate decisions in a manner which is acceptable to the members of said state?
> It consigns residents of countries with oppressive governments to total control by their governments
… which they already are under, so it doesn't make anything worse. And they are, of course, free to revolt, as oppressed peoples have done throughout history, sometimes succeeding and sometimes failing.
> By factionalizing Internet trust
You say factionalising, I say federating. It doesn't make any sense to me for a corporation in Canada to certify the identity of a site in Iran for a resident of Guinea-Bissau, which is the current situation. Federation seems to me to be the only solution capable of scaling to a world of billions.
> It greatly complicates the security stories of companies that have adopted vanity domain names in random countries
I think the unforced error was placing their identities in the hands of foreign states.
And, of course, with domain-level validation, their security is already in the hands of those states.
Are they? I always thought that .com, .edu, .net et al. are American. I suppose one could argue that .eu is transnational, although the EU are trying very hard to invent their own postmodern nation.
> It's jingoistic, suggesting we should base trust decisions not on technology or even, really, on policy, but rather on nationalism.
It's not really jingoism, although it might be nationalism. And is it even nationalism, when each nation-state makes its corporate decisions in a manner which is acceptable to the members of said state?
> It consigns residents of countries with oppressive governments to total control by their governments
… which they already are under, so it doesn't make anything worse. And they are, of course, free to revolt, as oppressed peoples have done throughout history, sometimes succeeding and sometimes failing.
> By factionalizing Internet trust
You say factionalising, I say federating. It doesn't make any sense to me for a corporation in Canada to certify the identity of a site in Iran for a resident of Guinea-Bissau, which is the current situation. Federation seems to me to be the only solution capable of scaling to a world of billions.
> It greatly complicates the security stories of companies that have adopted vanity domain names in random countries
I think the unforced error was placing their identities in the hands of foreign states.
And, of course, with domain-level validation, their security is already in the hands of those states.