Re: Tired of Waiting

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1 at ix.netcom.com>]

William and all,

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:

  Why would anybody be filtered out if you truly believe in an open process?

>
>
> > 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.

  There is none.  However the IAHC attempted to have their 7 gtld's entered
into the Root, and NSI denied that.

> 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:
>
> 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.

  THis is an RFC, that is not a standard YET.  RFC = Request for comments.

>
>
> 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.

  The IANA does NOT serve the IAB.  The IAB acts as the RFC editor.
The IANA serves the USG under contract currently.

>
>
> WSimpson at UMich.edu
>     Key fingerprint =  17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26  DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

 Regards,

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Jeffrey A. Williams
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