[142057] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Fri Jun 17 17:35:49 2011
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <16367643.606.1308345788311.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 11:33:50 -1000
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jun 17, 2011, at 11:23 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
>>> http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/17/202245/
>> You just learned about this now?
> In fact I did. I certainly haven't seen it mentioned on NANOG in the =
last 6=20
> months or so; where should I have seen it?
New TLDs have been discussed now for over a decade. Press (both =
technical and popular) on ICANN activities have ratcheted up =
significantly recently, particularly with the approval of .XXX (which =
was recently discussed here on NANOG: =
http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2011-March/034488.html). Not =
blaming/accusing, just surprised this would be a surprise. I guess I've =
been living in the layer9 cloud too long....
Regards,
-drc
