[7424] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FW: IAHC/IANA Verdict
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Wed Feb 5 15:31:52 1997
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 14:57:19 -0500
To: Jim Fleming <JimFleming@unety.net>
From: John Curran <jcurran@bbnplanet.com>
Cc: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
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
