Re: Tired of Waiting

["Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer at mhsc.com>]

At 02:07 PM 7/15/98 +0000, William Allen Simpson wrote:
>This person is not in my kill file (yet), so I recently saw a message
>claiming something that I thought we had long ago put to rest, and it
>was at least somewhat related to our work in the IETF.  Other CCs are
>now BCC'd:
>
>> From: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer at mhsc.com>
>> that IANA HAD a process for registering TLDs, and the first time someone
>> tries to use it there is a policy change disallowing new TLD registrations.
>>
>I am unable to find the RFC where this process is described.  Could
>someone point out the specifics?  The latest policy that I can find
>(still in force as far as I can tell), is as follows:

AFAIK it isn't an RFC. I do have documentation somewhere. The problem with
saving everything is that there is a LOT to search through.

>RFC-1591 (1994):
>
>   In the Domain Name System (DNS) naming of computers there is a
>   hierarchy of names.  The root of system is unnamed.  There are a set
>   of what are called "top-level domain names" (TLDs).  These are the
>   generic TLDs (EDU, COM, NET, ORG, GOV, MIL, and INT), and the two
>   letter country codes from ISO-3166.  It is extremely unlikely that
>   any other TLDs will be created.
>
>To the best of my knowledge, we have not finalized any other process,
>although we sent representatives to the IAHC to aid in developing a
>process.  But IANA serves the IAB, and the IAB has not yet issued a new
>RFC describing a change in process (despite urging to do so), nor has it
>designated any other body to serve as a new IANA.
>
>WSimpson at UMich.edu
>    Key fingerprint =  17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26  DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32
>

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