FW: News on new Registries and Domains (fwd)
Dan Kohn (dan@teledesic.com)
Sat, 24 Aug 1996 17:01:16 -0700
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>Subject: News on new Registries and Domains (fwd)
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>Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 18:58:58 -0700
>>From: postel@isi.edu
>To: ISOC-Advisory-Council@linus.isoc.org
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>Hi.
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>I've had lots of calls from the press today about the IANA's imminent
>announcent of new top-level domain names. Here is the message i've
>prepared to give the facts of the matter.
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>--jon.
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>Hello.
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>It seems that the press has been tipped off that there is big news
>about new top level domains being announced today by the IANA.
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>Sorry to say, that is not true.
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>What is true is that the IANA has prepared the "final" version of the
>plan for establishing new registries with new top-level domains.
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>In a nutshell the plan calls for the following steps:
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> 1. Form an "ad hoc committee" to process applications for new
> registries (by early September).
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> 2. Have the committee produce final specifications for the
> applications (during September).
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> 3. Announce that specification and open the period for
> accepting applications (by early October).
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> 4. At the close of the period for accepting applications (end
> of November), the committee reviews the applications and
> selects the organizations to be new registries (by early
> January).
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> 5. The Internet Society contracts with the selected
> organizations (during January).
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> 6. The new registries are in service (at the end of January).
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>Common questions:
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>Q1: Why is this being done ?
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>A1: To introduce competition in the top-level domain registration
>business so that market forces will ensure fair prices for good
>services.
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>Q2: How many new registries will there be ?
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>A2: We don't know. It depends on the applications and the selections
>by the ad hoc committee. It could be as many as about two dozen in the
>US and as many more in other countries around the world.
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>Q3: What will the new top-level domains be?
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>A3: We don't know yet. The organizations proposing to be registries
>each suggest the three new domain names they want to manage. The ad
>hoc committee reviewing the proposals will sort that out.
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>Q4: How is the ad hoc committee selected ?
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>A4: Members of the committee are appointed by the IANA, the Predident
>of the Internet Society, and the Chair of the Internet Architecture
>Board. The committe members have not been selected yet.
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>Q5: Is there a fee paid by the new registries, and if so where does the
>money go ?
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>A5: A small fixed fee ($2000/yr) plus a small percentage (2%) of the
>income from registrations are to be paid by the registries into a fund
>managed by the Internet Society. This fund will be used to pay for the
>central Internet infrastructure (for example, maintenance of the root
>servers).
>
>Q6: How does this impact existing registrations ?
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>A6: Existing registrations and services continue as before. This adds
>new options in parallel to the existing operations.
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>Q7: How do trademarks interact with this plan ?
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>A7: Trademarks are a complicated problem in their own right. There
>aspects of this plan that may ease the problems involved with the
>interaction of trademarks and domain names by givng more access to
>domain names for holders of the same tradmark in different business
>areas.
>
>Q8: How do i get more information about this ?
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>A8: Check the IANA Web page at http://www.iana.org/iana/ and click on
>"Announcements".
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