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Re: FW: IAHC/IANA Verdict

  • From: Avi Freedman
  • Date: Wed Feb 05 14:06:45 1997

Could you please keep this garbage off of NANOG, Jim?
Noone cares about IPv8.
And noone wants to think of .com as "Stargate 5".

Why not get involved with the real workers over at the IETF and
stop wasting your time?

Avi

> ----------
> From: 	Jim Fleming[SMTP:[email protected]]
> Sent: 	Wednesday, February 05, 1997 10:58 AM
> To: 	'New Newdom'
> Cc: 	'Donald Heath'; '[email protected]'
> Subject: 	IAHC/IANA Verdict
> 
> 
> After several months and much deliberation, the IAHC/IANA has
> finally handed down its verdict. The seven names that have been
> selected for their elaborate registry system are shown below. The
> rest of the IAHC/IANA proposal has very little to do with the Root
> Name Server owners and operators and appears to be mostly of
> interest to the members of the ISOC and the IAHC/IANA.
> 
> @@@@@@@@  http://www.iahc.org/draft-iahc-recommend-00.html
> 
> 3.1 Recommendations
> 
> New gTLDs will consist of strings of three to five letters each. gTLD
> names should have general, contextual meaning, i.e. the gTLD should
> suggest a connection with the Internet, with business or with personal
> uses. 
> 
> Seven, new gTLDs are specified here. It is expected that no further
> allocations will be made until April, 1998. 
> 
> .firm
> .store
> .web
> .arts
> .rec
> .info
> .nom
> 
> @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
> 
> In the "darwinian" world of the Internet, it is important for the
> entire Internet community to select only the "best of the net", as
> the net expands.
> 
> In the interest of making progress and getting people to focus on
> the large administrative and technical tasks facing everyone that really
> operate the Internet, I suggest that we debate which of the above
> names have merit and have registries standing behind them ready to
> support them.
> 
> In my opinion, only the .WEB Top Level Domain qualfies for
> consideration at this time. If people know of other registries that have
> stepped forward to support any of the other TLDs, please speak up.
> These are the open forums where history should be written.
> 
> If the owners and operators of the Root Name Servers agree that
> .WEB is a candidate for recognition, then I will assign it the IPv8
> Mapping of S10.G0 as shown below:
> 
> IPv8 Mappings
> 
> S0.G0  -  .NET (or .ARPA which is deprecated)
> S1.G0  -  .GOV
> S2.G0  -  .MIL
> S3.G0  -  .EDU
> S4.G0  -  .ORG
> S5.G0  -  .COM
> S6.G0  -  .INT
> S7.G0  -  .NIC
> S8.G0  -  .USA
> S9.G0  -  .CORP
> S10.G0  -  .WEB
> 
> If anyone has any comments, additions, corrections, etc. Please
> post them to the "newdom" list <http://www.newdom.com/lists>.
> 
> 
> --
> Jim Fleming
> Unir Corporation
> 
> e-mail:
> [email protected]
> [email protected] (EDNS/IPv8)
> 
> 

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