CENTR workshop for ccTLD Managers
Jean-Christophe Praud jc.praud at ludexpress.com
Fri Aug 28 00:02:25 CEST 1998
Fay Howard wrote: > > > If you manage a ccTLD and wish to attend, please reply completing the template > at the end of this email. > Places are restricted to 26 and so initially we must limit participation to > one person per TLD. Preference will be given to CENTR participants should > applications exceed 26. Mmm. You should include "alternative" cccTLDs managers, too. > There is often talk of 'best practice' and even standardization of ccTLD rules > and policies. With one of the key requirements of ccTLDs being autonomy and > with the diversity of economies, legal systems and cultures, is there any room > for harmonization? It should. You should ask Artur Grzymala <artur at zoo.pl> and Veni Markovski <veni at isoc.bg> about their respective ccTLDs policies. > One of the roles of the established CENTR should be to coordinate or > commission projects on behalf of members. Pooling of resources or sharing the > cost of software developments for example would be a significant benefit of > CENTR membership. It would be for all Internet participants, too... The IRSC (http://www.irsc.ah.net ) has already established a so-called "alternative" root servers network enabling virtually anybody to create his/her own TLD(s), with the agreement and the cooperation of the other IRSC members. The IRSC is supported by ISPs, IPPs, etc. as well as end-users. We are currently serving an estimated share of 30% of global DNS traffic. Some of our european members (see above) have created "alternative" cccTLDs, because of their ccTLDs politics or private monopols. Best regards, -- Jean-Christophe PRAUD - LUDEXPRESS http://www.ludexpress.com http://www.nicwine.net http://www.irsc.ah.net 3:213 WINE Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu n'gah Bill R'lyeh Wgah'nagl fhtagn -------- Logged at Fri Aug 28 06:40:05 MET DST 1998 ---------
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