---------- From: Jim Fleming[SMTP:JimFleming@unety.net.] Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 1997 10:58 AM To: 'New Newdom' Cc: 'Donald Heath'; 'postel@iana.org' 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: JimFleming@unety.net JimFleming@unety.s0.g0 (EDNS/IPv8)