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Thinking About a city-TLD’s Role in Urban Planning
By Thomas Lowenhaupt* * *
Participatory Planning Tech WorkshopNovember 13, 2009
New York City
s p o n s o r s
The Open Planning Project and Regional Planning Association
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The .nyc TLD
like .com, .net, .edu, .gov and .org
but just for New York City
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Today .nyc is perfect, precious, delicate, and complete.
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Mathematically the algorithm indicates 253^38 names.(People discover domain names like Columbus “discovered” America.)
We know all the names it will hatch.
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There are different categories of names.
• Good Names• Technical Names• Programmer-Friendly Names
Today I’m going to address the later.
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Movies.nycSchools.nycHotels.nyc
BestDarnChili.nyc148Lafayette.nycChinatown.nyc
Matt-Cooperrider.nyc
Good Domain Names
- short, descriptive, and memorable -
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www.nycnic.nyc
whois.nycexample.nyc
aso.nyc
Technical Names
- these help .nyc run effectively -
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Programmer–Friendly Names
In a digital era, these can make or break a city.
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Thinking About a city-TLDs Potential
Our GOAL: a more intuitive, accessible, livable and prosperous city.
I n f r a s t r u c t u r e
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Cyber “Land-Use” PlanThe city’s “public space” has streets,
monuments, curb cuts, fire plugs, utility holes, street lights, sewers, police cars, bus
schedules…
Our Cyber Land-Use plan assigns programmer–friendly names to these things.
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GPSLocation.Bus5732.M-180.nyc(bus location) (bus number) (bus route)
- a programmer-friendly name -
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Raw Meet for Mashups• GPSLocation.Bus2321.M-180.nyc• GPSLocation.Bus5732.M-180.nyc• GPSLocation.Bus5743.M-180.nyc• GPSLocation.Bus9723.M-180.nyc
• GPSLocation.Bus2321.M-181.nyc• GPSLocation.Bus5732.M-181.nyc• GPSLocation.Bus6965.M-181.nyc
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Raw Meet for Mashups• GPSLocation.Bus2321.M-180.nyc• GPSLocation.Bus5732.M-180.nyc• GPSLocation.Bus5743.M-180.nyc• GPSLocation.Bus9723.M-180.nyc
• GPSLocation.Bus2321.M-181.nyc• GPSLocation.Bus5732.M-181.nyc• GPSLocation.Bus6965.M-181.nyc
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Raw Meet for Mashups• GPSLocation.Bus2321.M-180.nyc• GPSLocation.Bus5732.M-180.nyc• GPSLocation.Bus5743.M-180.nyc• GPSLocation.Bus9723.M-180.nyc
• GPSLocation.Bus2321.M-181.nyc• GPSLocation.Bus5732.M-181.nyc• GPSLocation.Bus6965.M-181.nyc
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Raw Meet for Mashups• GPSLocation.Bus2321.M-180.nyc• GPSLocation.Bus5732.M-180.nyc• GPSLocation.Bus5743.M-180.nyc• GPSLocation.Bus9723.M-180.nyc
• GPSLocation.Bus2321.M-181.nyc• GPSLocation.Bus5732.M-181.nyc• GPSLocation.Bus6965.M-181.nyc
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Later, the Museum might decide to add drop-curb info onto the map to aide people with wheels.
M-1.Bridge-Broadway.NE.DropCurb.nyc
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Thinking About a city-TLDs Potential
Are these names useful for urban planning?
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A library of the city’s digital infrastructure
…where you can find things…
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A library of the city’s digital infrastructure
…standards based …programmer-friendly …networkable city
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A library of the city’s digital infrastructure
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In the future, when planning a vacation or business venture people will ask:
How many apps does New York City have?
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…today .nyc is in a precarious position.
To an extent, the market will take care of the Good Domain Names.
But the programmer-friendly names are in a very precarious position.
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.com
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Calling Dr. Google
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TimelineCity RFP response due December 7
$$$$ $$$$
Other likely early city-TLDs.paris, .berlin, .bcn (Barcelona)
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CHOICE
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Connecting.nyc Inc. is a NYS not-for-profit.
It advocates for the development of .nyc as public interest, digital infrastructure.
* * * connectingnyc.org
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ThanksSeveral graphics added the spark of life to this
presentation.• Humpty on wall - http://www.sterlingtimes.org/memorable_images22.htm• Humpty falling - http://www.tillamook.k12.or.us/Spes/staff/wrightt/songs%20and%20poems.html• Humpty broken - http://johnryanrecabar.wordpress.com/2008/10/26/questions-from-a-notebook-i-bought-
five-months-ago/• Humpty with umbrella - http://www.dannyandkim.com/PDF%27s/Activity%20Guide.pdf• Phone booth head - http://www.geekologie.com/2007/11/personal_cell_phone_booths_mak.php• Pearl Harbor Day -http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/
commons/5/5d/USS_Arizona_burning-Pearl_Harbor.jpg&imgrefurl=http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USS_Arizona_burning-Pearl_Harbor.jpg&usg=__Rke2lvnSUoJJ4zNvtrkqeHLwJaA=&h=586&w=740&sz=112&hl=en&start=8&um=1&tbnid=RCY8jVPflky8OM:&tbnh=112&tbnw=141&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpearl%2Bharbour%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26um%3D1
• Manhattan map - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commissioners%27_Plan_of_1811
* * * connectingnyc.org