Most ISPs are very busy trying to keep everything running and trying to grow their businesses. As some of you may have read, I asked Bill Manning, about the status of one of the documents he was working on as shown below. Bill indicated, "that topic is not something that I will persue on inet-access". No reason was provided. As you will note, Mr. Manning casually mentioned the "ad-hoc" committee. One is probably left to guess that this is the ISOC Ad-Hoc committee mentioned in... <http://www.isoc.org/whatsnew/itlds.html> Even though it does not appear that the ISOC has announced the members of the committee, obviously some people feel that they are already doing work for that committee. Maybe the ISOC can shed some light on that? It now looks like Michael Dillon will take those matters up over on the "newdom" mailing list. For people that are not allowed to actively be part of the "newdom" list, the archive is at... <http://www.ar.com/lists/newdom> @@@@@@@@@@ http://www.ar.com/lists/newdom/2031.html newdom Ad Hoc committee Michael Dillon (michael@memra.com) Tue, 8 Oct 1996 23:08:34 -0700 (PDT) On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, Bill Manning wrote:

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Several ISPs have asked me about the facilties they would need to be considered "industrial strength" for a registry. As far as I know, your document addresses those issues.

The document I am working on is for the ad-hoc committee. But that topic is not something that I will persue on inet-access.

So, are draft versions of your document publicly available? Are any other ad-hoc committee documents publicly available? Would IANA publicly make available any data on the preliminary applications for registry status that they have received? If so, would they indicate the number of TLD's which have been mentioned in more than one preliminary application and the number of organizations which would potentially be in conflict assuming that all such applications were accepted. And how many preliminary applications are currently known from each country (not named countries, just country A, country B). A number of people on this list, some just lurking right now, intend to apply to the ad-hoc committee for TLD registry status. Is there any advice you could give those people as to what actions they might want to take right now. Michael Dillon - ISP & Internet Consulting @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ For the record, it is curious that Michael Dillon continues to ask Bill Manning about what the "IANA" will do, despite the fact that Fred Baker, the IETF chair, indicated that Bill Manning's name was not on a recent list of IANA members. In my opinion, ISPs have the right to know what sort of operational requirements are being proposed to operate a "registry". If the requirements are such that only certain ISPs can participate, then that favors those people. ISPs and network operators have a large stake in operating registries. In my opinion, they should have some input into that planning process. -- Jim Fleming UNETY Systems, Inc. Naperville, IL e-mail: JimFleming@unety.net JimFleming@unety.net.s0.g0 (EDNS/IPv8)