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1. Erik Uden 🍑 (erikuden@mastodon.de)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2023 17:12:53 JST Erik Uden 🍑

   I'm on my way to the 25th ICANN78 General Assembly to talk to the maintainers of the Internet about some very big plans.

   Stay tuned - I hope to meet a few acquaintances from DENIC :DENIC: who are this year's hosts. #ICANN #ICANN78

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2023 17:12:52 JST Aral Balkan

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     @ErikUden Wanna also talk to them about some very small ones if you get the chance? ;)

     https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/

     #icaan #icaan78 #SmallWeb

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2023 17:59:28 JST Aral Balkan

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     @ErikUden Thanks! Here’s one: “The commercial domain name system is so inaccessible to people working on decentralisation right now that the Small Web is being designed to use the Public Suffix List as a workaround to enable everyday people to have their own domain names. Would you be open to discussing the implementation of non-commercial top-level domains with a tiny not-for-profit like Small Technology Foundation that doesn’t have Google’s budget (or any budget, really?)”

     :)

   • Erik Uden 🍑 (erikuden@mastodon.de)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2023 17:59:30 JST Erik Uden 🍑

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     • Aral Balkan

     @aral absolutely! Strong supporter of the #SmallWeb and, from the way I understand ICANN's ideals, the Small Web should be the final form of the Internet, or rather what ICANN should try their infrastructure to be like. To a degree, all the open protocols and standards are in place to make that happen, yet it is true that the process is so complicated and costly that most new gTLDs for example are really hosted by a few corporations, or ECO managing 70% of all domains.

     https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/111283183692407850

     There's a Q&A Session soon, if you have the time it'd be lovely if you could tell me what questions to ask!

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2023 18:07:50 JST Aral Balkan

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     @ErikUden Or, more succinctly, “Why have we tied the primary means of identity on the World Wide Web to the business model of corporations charging often exuberant amounts for what is essentially records in a database and can we please at least consider allowing non-commercial entities to offer non-commercial access to domain names for the common good?”

     #icaan #icaan78 #SmallWeb

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2023 18:11:57 JST Aral Balkan

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     @ErikUden (Actually, I’m not sure that’s more succinct after all but you get the gist. It blows my mind how much potential we’re sacrificing for democratising the Web because the focus is on corporations making profit by selling database records. Capitalism has once again taken an infinite resource and implemented artificial scarcity so a relative handful can make a profit at the expense of realising our potential as a species. The shortsightedness makes me angry.)

     #icaan #icaan78

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2023 18:12:35 JST Aral Balkan

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     @ErikUden 💕

   • Erik Uden 🍑 (erikuden@mastodon.de)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2023 18:12:36 JST Erik Uden 🍑

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     • Aral Balkan

     @aral really good! I'll try my best to bring this on stage.