[105549] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Fri Jun 27 05:13:16 2008
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>
To: "Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET" <ml@t-b-o-h.net>
In-Reply-To: <200806270120.m5R1KmGr023251@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:12:57 -0400
Cc: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Jun 26, 2008, at 9:20 PM, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote:
>>
>> Two years ago I posed the question here about the need for TLDs
>> (http://www.mcabee.org/lists/nanog/May-06/msg00110.html).
>>
> This all should have been solved by allowing those who
> wanted/applied for TLDs to be granted them back in 1995 when
> originally requested :
>
> http://www.gtld-mou.org/gtld-discuss/mail-archive/00990.html
The SNR in the gtld WG was very low, which I think may have been an
influencing factor.
I do have to wonder, however, what Eugene Kashpureff thinks about this.
Regards
Marshall
>
>
> There was a procedure, people followed it, and IANA
> decided to go other ways with it. Now years later there is
> all this red tape restricting things.
>
> And if the "powers that be" decide to go back to
> it, you can replace stormking.com with t-b-o-h.net and I
> look forward to it! ;)
>
> Tuc / Scott Ellentuch
>
