[ AURSC ] Application for New TLD's
Jim Fleming JimFleming at unety.net
Sun Sep 13 20:23:18 CEST 1998
-----Original Message----- From: Jean-Christophe Praud <jc.praud at ludexpress.com> To: aursc at lists.ah.net <aursc at lists.ah.net> Cc: Sascha Ignjatovic <sascha at isoc.vienna.org>; Robert Shaw <robert.shaw at itu.int>; Jim Dixon <jdd at matthew.uk1.vbc.net>; Michael Sondow <msondow at ic.sunysb.edu>; Jay at Iperdome.com <Jay at Iperdome.com>; Hank Nussbacher <hank at ibm.net.il>; Daniel Karrenberg <Daniel.Karrenberg at ripe.net>; Edgar Danielyan <edd at aic.net>; Artur Grzymala <artur at zoo.pl>; Annie Renard <Annie.Renard at nic.fr>; tld-wg at ripe.net <tld-wg at ripe.net> Date: Sunday, September 13, 1998 1:09 PM Subject: Re: [ AURSC ] Application for New TLD's >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- - >AURSC Information and User Mail List. Open. >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- - <snip> > >I'm responsible for G3. jc.praud at ludexpress.com > >For more info about G3/EURSC domain names, look at http://www.eursc.net > @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Have the G3 people looked at the following and come to any conclusion on it ? @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ ----Original Message----- From: Richard J. Sexton <richard at SEXTON.COM> To: DOMAIN-POLICY at LISTS.INTERNIC.NET <DOMAIN-POLICY at LISTS.INTERNIC.NET> Date: Sunday, September 13, 1998 11:05 AM Subject: Re: .GP, .TM, .TV and .MQ to be Removed ? >At 09:05 AM 9/13/98 +0800, Dave Crocker wrote: >>At 02:49 PM 9/12/98 -0400, Richard J. Sexton wrote: >>>I also note that Jon Postel wants to see .TV and .TM removed >>>from the root zone, but NSI/NSF prevented that. >> >>please provide documentation for both of these assertions. > >Knock it off Dave, you were in the room in Singapore >when Don Telage announced this. Why didn't you ask him >for documentation? > > Again, I think that we need to look at the more global issue. What TLDs would Jon Postel (aka IANA) be proposing to remove from the legacy Root Name Server Cluster if the U.S. Government turns control over to him ? Does that list contain ? .GP .MQ .TV .TM .CC .NATO In my opinion registries and consumers have a right to know this well in advance. The other RSCs also need to socialize these proposed DELETIONS. Just because France tells Jon Postel to delete .MQ and .GP and to take away someone's IP addresses, I am not sure that he should do that. There has to be some checks and balances in the system. Where does the IAB and IETF enter this discussion ? It is one thing for the IETF to stand and cheer and endorse Jon Postel. It is another thing to be responsible for potential changes to the DNS that could impact companies, countries, etc. Jon Postel has delegated TLDs to people that clearly do not have the local support that some people claim. Now governments like France are going to try to have those TLDs removed. This is not stability. Stability can only come from open, fair hearings on these matters. In my opinion, the major RSCs should prepare a public response to France that indicates that they can NOT remove a TLD just because France says to do that. I think that the current operators of the TLD(s) should have some opportunity to have some say about the past, present and future plans for the TLD. This is the only way we can have some stability in the system. Just in case someone walked in late... @@@@ http://www.gtld-mou.org/pab/mail-archive/00298.html "Lastly, it is necessary to end rapidly the exploitation, by private operators having received no mandate from the French authorities, of the management of top level domains corresponding to French overseas departments (.gp for Guadeloupe, .mq for Martinique,...). IANA effectively considers that these are "national" domains. The French government must therefore request IANA to refuse to recognize these operators or to allocate them IP addresses." @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Jim Fleming Unir Corporation - http://www.unir.com End-2-End: VPC(Java)---C+ at ---<IPv8>---C+ at ---(Java)VPC http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/130dftmail/unir.txt http://www.ddj.com/index/author/idx10133.htm -------- Logged at Mon Sep 14 11:36:41 MET DST 1998 ---------
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