At 12:49 2/5/97, Jim Fleming wrote:

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.

Jim, I don't know if I qualify as one of the folks who "really operate the Internet", but I'd like to point out that we have customers who would like to have a readable, logical domain name and willing to be outside of ".com". Each of these domains seems to be well-thought out and I don't think they will be any shortage of users or candidate registries. If you need to know that there will be a registry for each new gTLD, then I'm willing to run any of them that cannot otherwise find a home. /John