I intend to be a standard by which other board members will be measured. And I know the technology. And most people don't understand the issues of content management, which is very definitely changing domain names from being globally meaningful to locally meaningful. They think a name is just a name is just a name. Yet it costs a lot of money to move content around the network, both in terms of bandwidth and in terms of time.
Users get really tired of waiting for stuff to get dragged across the Net.
Therefore, we've got geographically sensitive domain names. And there's this strong financial pressure by data providers and ISPs to manage the content so it can get to the users more efficiently, in terms of not generating so much bandwidth consumption. It's assuming that domain names are this globally unique name space, when in fact they are evolving to become more of a personal domain space. So unless one understands the technology and the implications of it, when one enacts rules regulating it, you essentially pour concrete around the technology. You inhibit, if not prevent, innovation.