Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!bu-cs!ckd From: ckd@bu-pub.bu.edu (Christopher Davis) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: Namespace Spring Cleaning -- not this year. Message-ID: <40417@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Date: 15 Oct 89 01:12:51 GMT References: <8910141059.AA09475@helios.enea.se> Sender: daemon@bu-cs.BU.EDU Reply-To: ckd@bu-pub.bu.edu (Christopher Davis) Organization: Boston University School of Management Lines: 23 Earlier, chuq@apple.com (Chuq von Rospach) said: Chuq> There is no need for new top-level domains. On 14 Oct 89 10:59:50 GMT, sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) said: Erland> Unless, one should try to form a top-level domain covering the Erland> aspects of commercial life and workplace issues. This should be a Erland> "serious" domain, and be honoured as such. [...] Some sample Erland> issues: non-techical management, offices and cubicles (which turns Erland> up in comp.software-eng of all places from time to time), Erland> discrimination, marketing. [...] I'd like to emphasize the domain Erland> I'm looking for is not "soc". [...] Neither isn't it "biz", [...] mgmt.all perhaps? Assuming biz.all remains outside mainstream usenet as the "commercialized" hierarchy [biz.all becoming mainstream is, IMHO, not likely], perhaps that would be an acceptable alternative. (Admittedly, it's not a great name--any other ideas?) -- Christopher Davis, BU SMG '90 "Technology is dominated by those who manage what they do not understand."