NEWDOM II newdom-request@ar.com ========================================================= To Subscribe send a mail message to newdom-request@ar.com with the word "subscribe" (with out the quotes) in the body of the message. Overview. There is a need for a nonbiased forum to discuss a meeting to create an organization for the management of Top Leve Domains. There are several other email lists [see below] dedicated to the general discussion of TLDs but there is none specificly oriented with creating a forum as specified in the NTIA White Paper. It is the hope of the list maintainer to provide a forum oriented in the gathering of consensus on a meeting place/time, its agenda, funding, and participants. Goals Yes, this list has a goal. The following is the main function of the NEWDOM list. o Organize a meeting on TLDs with the following attributes o the meeting is announced well in advance o is located some place with a good international airport. o has accomodations. o invites anyone and everyone that would like to participate, and will not go forward w/o the participation of IAB, IANA, Network Solutions, POC/CORE, APNIC, ARIN, RIPE, and ISOC. o allows mbone particiaption. o meets the requirements in the NTIA White Paper A bit of history. This list is dedicated to the topic of new TOP level Domains. It has been a place for the discussion of the addition of additional top level domains (TLDs) like .com, .net, and .org. It is the hope of the list maintainer to provide an unbiased forum for the discussion of topics pertaining to the goal of adding additional TLDs to the IANA root nameservers. While the list maintainer has participated in various forum related to TLDs he will not remove or censor in any way the discussion on the NEWDOM list. The list maintainer wishes all to make their voice herd but, please read/listen and respect others and their openions. Please note there other lists dedicated to discussions on TLDs namely: gtld-discuss@gtld-mou.org domain-policy@lists.internic.net Please adhear to the following: o Do NOT threaten Legal Action against anyone on by posting the threat to the list. o Please stay on the topic of NEW TLDs specificly to the formation of a confrence to create an organization to manage Internet TLDs to fully meet the requirements specified in the Dept. of Commerce, NTIA Proceeding Policy Statement Additional Reading. http://www.iana.org/ http://www.giaw.org/ http://www.gtld-mou.org/ Unsubscribing To remove yourself from this list send a message to newdom-request@ar.com In the body of this message put the word 'unsubscribe' If you have any administrative questions please mail rick@ar.com.