Re: [ga] ICANN posting - area for universal acceptance of TLDs.

["kidsearch" <kidsearch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I especially love it every time ICANN write's this phrase, "within the
authoritative root-server system "

That word, authoritative. ICANN BoD is still so arrogant they believe this
root will be the one and only. It may not even be the most widely used root
within 5 years if they keep going the way they have.

Chris McElroy
http://www.blogs.pn

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "GNSO.SECRETARIAT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <gnso.secretariat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 7:57 PM
Subject: [ga] ICANN posting - area for universal acceptance of TLDs.


> [To: ga[at]gnso.icann.org; announce[at]gnso.icann.org]
> [To: liaison6c[at]gnso.icann.org; council[at]gnso.icann.org]
>
>
> Please note that we today posted a new announcement of an area on the
> ICANN website - an area for universal acceptance of TLDs.
> http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-20mar06.htm
>
> This is part of an effort that has been underway for a while, to provide
> information to the community and in particular to ISPs, application
> developers, users, webmasters and others, about the complete range of
> existing top-level domains (TLDs) - so that these can be used adequately.
>
> As additional TLDs are incorporated into the root, a central and
> authoritative source for information on TLDs becomes increasingly
important.
> Further, ICANN receives frequent inquiries regarding whether a given TLD
> is "real" or not.
>
> As such this new area contain a variety of information, including: (i) a
> list of the existing TLDs that are open for operation (both ccTLDs and
> gTLDs), (ii) a discussion forum to discuss what additional option we
> have to promote the awareness of all TLDs further, (iii) coming
> information for a)common problems and solutions, and b) a TLD
> verification tool, which application developers can use to query the DNS
> to determine whether a TLD exists or not.
>
> Please make sure that you provide your supporting organizations,
> advisory committees and any other working groups with a notification
> about this information.
>
> Please let Karen or I know if you have any questions to the
> announcement, or perhaps suggestions for added information to this area.
>
> Kind regards,
> Tina
>
> Tina Dam
> Chief gTLD Registry Liaison
> ICANN
>
> -- 
> Glen de Saint Géry
> GNSO Secretariat - ICANN
> gnso.secretariat[at]gnso.icann.org
> http://gnso.icann.org
>