The IAHC's proposal can be found at "http://www.iahc.org/draft-iahc-recommend-00.html". Any cutomers (including yourself) will need to contact one of the new registrars to get a domain registered (similar to how you go to InteRNIC for .com domains.) unless you are a registrar yourself. The requirements for becoming elligible to be a registrar are also listed in that document. Please note that the domains are not scheduled to be available for over a year from now. Information about the IAHC, its procedures, and its recommendations, as well as endorsing parties can be found at "http://www.iahc.org/". Stephen At 08:34 07 05 97 -0700, Geoff White wrote:
On Wed, 7 May 1997, Cameo Wood wrote:
Citing "consistent and universal criticism," the IAHC announced that any service meeting financial and technical qualifications will be eligible to become a registrar. No lottery will be held.
Are these requirements listed anywhere? I've got customers chomping at the bit to get at these new domains. I just need to know how to register these domains.
At 8:52 AM -0700 5/7/97, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
Please note that the domains are not scheduled to be available for over a year from now.
This is inaccurate. We do not know exactly when they will become available but many of are hopeful that it will be summer or early fall, this year. Somewhere in the range of 4-6 months from now. At 8:57 AM -0700 5/7/97, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
I fail to see how it is possible that the IAHC announced anything this week; the IAHC was dissolved on 1 May 97 when the gTLD-MoU was signed.
clever of you to notice. the announcement came from the Interim Policy Oversight Committee d/ ---------------------------- Dave Crocker, Director +1 408 246 8253 Internet Mail Consortium (f) +1 408 249 6205 127 Segre Place dcrocker@imc.org Santa Cruz, CA 95060 USA http://www.imc.org Also: iPOC member, expressing personal opinions http://www.iahc.org
Stephen Sprunk writes:
The IAHC's proposal can be found at "http://www.iahc.org/draft-iahc-recommend-00.html". Any cutomers (including yourself) will need to contact one of the new registrars to get a domain registered (similar to how you go to InteRNIC for .com domains.) unless you are a registrar yourself. The requirements for becoming elligible to be a registrar are also listed in that document.
Please note that the domains are not scheduled to be available for over a year from now.
That last bit is inaccurate. They are supposed to be around far sooner than that. Perry Speaking personally, and not in any official capacity
In the list of requirements, one that caught my eye was a 24/7 helpdesk. Does a help desk mean someone who tells you what is wrong and that it'll take you three days to get it fixed or one that can fix it immediately? AFAIK, the Internic doesn't have either on a 24/7 scale currently. They do have a NOC (I hear) but have never really seen it work, cough, very well. -Deepak. On Wed, 7 May 1997, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
The IAHC's proposal can be found at "http://www.iahc.org/draft-iahc-recommend-00.html". Any cutomers (including yourself) will need to contact one of the new registrars to get a domain registered (similar to how you go to InteRNIC for .com domains.) unless you are a registrar yourself. The requirements for becoming elligible to be a registrar are also listed in that document.
Please note that the domains are not scheduled to be available for over a year from now.
Information about the IAHC, its procedures, and its recommendations, as well as endorsing parties can be found at "http://www.iahc.org/".
Stephen
At 08:34 07 05 97 -0700, Geoff White wrote:
On Wed, 7 May 1997, Cameo Wood wrote:
Citing "consistent and universal criticism," the IAHC announced that any service meeting financial and technical qualifications will be eligible to become a registrar. No lottery will be held.
Are these requirements listed anywhere? I've got customers chomping at the bit to get at these new domains. I just need to know how to register these domains.
Deepak Jain writes:
In the list of requirements, one that caught my eye was a 24/7 helpdesk. Does a help desk mean someone who tells you what is wrong and that it'll take you three days to get it fixed or one that can fix it immediately?
One of the reasons for this is that in the new system, registrars are scattered worldwide. Someone at a registrar in Australia might find themselves needing to talk to someone at a registrar in Boston because of a system problem that has occurred -- or someone at the central database might have to talk to a registrar in a distant timezone. A 24x7 operation assures that there is at least some way to get in touch in an emergency, even if you are operating in very disparate timezones. Perry Speaking personally, and not in any official capacity
At 12:37 PM -0700 5/7/97, Deepak Jain wrote:
In the list of requirements, one that caught my eye was a 24/7 helpdesk.
In Geneva, as editor of the IAHC Final Report I apologized for some careless wording concerning this and let me do it again, for this list. There are two lists of requirements in the Report. The first is short and highly objective to measure. That is the list that will be used by the auditors to qualify applicants to be registrars. The second list is much longer and often more subjective. It is in the "Discussion" section rather than "Recommendations" section, where the term "recommendation" follows some international agencies' use of it to mean, well, requirement. Anyhow, the second list represents the considered opinion of the IAHC for what is REALLY necessary to do a good job. It was our way of attempting to provide practical guidance, rather than bureaucratic formality, for those seeking to do the registrar task well. I.e., it's just our opinion and does not affect the formal aspects of selection. d/ ---------------------------- Dave Crocker, Director +1 408 246 8253 Internet Mail Consortium (f) +1 408 249 6205 127 Segre Place dcrocker@imc.org Santa Cruz, CA 95060 USA http://www.imc.org Also: iPOC member, expressing personal opinions http://www.iahc.org
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