.FIND
So that
any business
anywhere
can by found by
anyone
at anytime
For example, if you, a business-person in San Francisco,
wanted to find a cotton exporter in Burkina Faso, you would type the following
Uniform Search Locator into your browser:
export.diapaga.burkinafaso.yp
or
cotton.diapaga.burkinafaso.yp
or
cotton.diapaga.yp
ICANN Staff Analysis:
1. "Their new
service would require substantial search capabilities, including
the ability to handle misspellings and near matches."
RESPONSE:
This is a non-issue. As soon as
this was posted, we received a flood of e-mail, most notably one from
Enformatica, offering to solve our supposed "technical problems". This point is tantamount to insisting that
our application is technically incomplete because we didn't list the color of
socks our programmers would be wearing when they update our code.
This
software is available off-the-shelf and not relevant to the questions asked in
the application.
2. "...a key
underlying assumption of the proposal is that other third party businesses
(yellow page directory companies) would fundamentally change their businesses
in the manner proposed by Monsoon.
RESPONSE:
Actually, a sufficient number of publishers, to include the Yellow Pages
Publishers Association itself, have committed to moving in this direction. My three minutes won't allow for the details
of of these commitments.
But, although one publisher per region is
sufficient, we have commitments for redundant contributions from multiple
publishers, as this is just a far too easy and ripe money-making opportunity
for them AND THEY CANNOT AFFORD NOT TO!
SUMMARY:
We intend to solve an international problem with
availability of presence on the 'Net and provide a large group of publishers
with the longevity which they themselves began to doubt.