Thinking About a city-TLD s Role in Urban Planning

Thinking About a city-TLD’s Role in Urban Planning By Thomas Lowenhaupt * * * Participatory Planning Tech Workshop November 13, 2009 New York City s p on s o r s The Open Planning Project and Regional Planning Association 1

The. nyc TLD like. com, . net, . edu, . gov and. org but just for New York City 2

Today. nyc is perfect, precious, delicate, and complete. 3

We know all the names it will hatch. Mathematically the algorithm indicates 253^38 names. (People discover domain names like Columbus “discovered” America. ) 4

There are different categories of names. • Good Names • Technical Names • Programmer-Friendly Names Today I’m going to address the later. 5

Good Domain Names - short, descriptive, and memorable - Movies. nyc Schools. nyc Hotels. nyc Best. Darn. Chili. nyc 148 Lafayette. nyc Chinatown. nyc Matt-Cooperrider. nyc 6

Technical Names - these help. nyc run effectively - www. nyc nic. nyc whois. nyc example. nyc aso. nyc 7

Programmer–Friendly Names In a digital era, these can make or break a city. 8

Thinking About a city-TLDs Potential Our GOAL: a more intuitive, accessible, livable and prosperous city. Infrastructure 9

Thinking About a city-TLDs Potential Cyber “Land-Use” Plan The 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. 10

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Thinking About a city-TLDs Potential GPSLocation. Bus 5732. M-180. nyc (bus location) (bus number) (bus route) - a programmer-friendly name - 12

Raw Meet for Mashups • • GPSLocation. Bus 2321. M-180. nyc GPSLocation. Bus 5732. M-180. nyc GPSLocation. Bus 5743. M-180. nyc GPSLocation. Bus 9723. M-180. nyc • • • GPSLocation. Bus 2321. M-181. nyc GPSLocation. Bus 5732. M-181. nyc GPSLocation. Bus 6965. M-181. nyc ------------- 13

Raw Meet for Mashups • • GPSLocation. Bus 2321. M-180. nyc GPSLocation. Bus 5732. M-180. nyc GPSLocation. Bus 5743. M-180. nyc GPSLocation. Bus 9723. M-180. nyc • • • GPSLocation. Bus 2321. M-181. nyc GPSLocation. Bus 5732. M-181. nyc GPSLocation. Bus 6965. M-181. nyc ------------- 14

Raw Meet for Mashups • • GPSLocation. Bus 2321. M-180. nyc GPSLocation. Bus 5732. M-180. nyc GPSLocation. Bus 5743. M-180. nyc GPSLocation. Bus 9723. M-180. nyc • • • GPSLocation. Bus 2321. M-181. nyc GPSLocation. Bus 5732. M-181. nyc GPSLocation. Bus 6965. M-181. nyc ------------- 15

Raw Meet for Mashups • • GPSLocation. Bus 2321. M-180. nyc GPSLocation. Bus 5732. M-180. nyc GPSLocation. Bus 5743. M-180. nyc GPSLocation. Bus 9723. M-180. nyc • • • GPSLocation. Bus 2321. M-181. nyc GPSLocation. Bus 5732. M-181. nyc GPSLocation. Bus 6965. M-181. nyc ------------- Later, the Museum might decide to add drop-curb info onto the map to aide people with wheels. M-1. Bridge-Broadway. NE. Drop. Curb. nyc 16

Thinking About a city-TLDs Potential Are these names useful for urban planning? 17

Thinking About a city-TLDs Potential A library of the city’s digital infrastructure …where you can find things… 18

Thinking About a city-TLDs Potential A library of the city’s digital infrastructure …standards based …programmer-friendly …networkable city 19

Thinking About a city-TLDs Potential A library of the city’s digital infrastructure In the future, when planning a vacation or business venture people will ask: How many apps does New York City have? 20

Thinking About a city-TLDs Potential …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. 21

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Calling Dr. Google 26

Timeline City RFP response due December 7 $$$$ Other likely early city-TLDs. paris, . berlin, . bcn (Barcelona) 27

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Thinking About a city-TLDs Potential Connecting. nyc Inc. is a NYS not-for-profit. It advocates for the development of. nyc as public interest, digital infrastructure. * * * connectingnyc. org 29

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