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There are at least a few dozen small shops in the NW suburbs of Chicago, 
and that is all I care about. Those shops cannot afford any Industry 4.0 
advancements, but I can help them to begin with  digitizing their 
production floor.

You must work in manufacturing to be able to see most the opportunities 
- yes, commercial opportunities. For example, for 3D printing I 
specialize in movement and storage, such as dovetails and rails.  Some 
of my prototypes are printed in PLA, then they are fitted with shim 
stock to reach accuracy. The plastic dovetails are opened to fit and 
route electrical wiring and mount sensors such as limit switches, cycle 
count, temperature and heat sensors. The PLA later is going to be 
replaced with molded nylon, the standard screws with precision threaded 
rods, the walls of storage with pierced steel. I help people design so 
their printed plastic is as close to manufacturing capacity as 
reasonable or practical.

OpenNIC has a purpose, more later. industry 4.0 is a service stack, 
mostly edge-computing with proprietary gateways to the sensors and 
process - much like the self-checkout stations you see everywhere. In 
manufacturing this is much more complex, and it is still evolving. The 
reason i got into MAAS is to free myself from ICANN, and via VPN like 
ZeroTier or similar thechnologies make the NW Chicago Factory 4.0 
network - entirely ICANN independent possible.

The only reason you do not see how this could fit together is because 
you, unlike me, is not researching this for years. Industry 4.0 is way 
too large and too expensive for 99.99999 percent of factory floors. I 
have much better ideas and solutions.

But I am not going to write more until there are a few people 
interested. Again, manufacturing is not as exiting as free software or 
the theory of anarchy. Its a repetitive, rigid and unforgiving 
environment, but not without room to play.

On 2020-10-13 15:11, Jeff Taylor wrote:
> So let me ask you... Who is your target audience for creating this
> TLD?  There is no commercial application for it, but it sounds like
> you want to create a domain space for manufacturers.  To me that
> appears contradictory, so I'm curious as to what purpose you think it
> would serve?
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