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An individual is always able to get involved in the IETF or the Regional technical meetings which give advice to the RIRs.
This individual requests the IETF hold a BOF at the upcoming meeting in LA following the draft outlined below. ______________START<PRE> New Top Level Domain BOF (Time/location To Be Announced) ================================ Chair: Bob Allisat DESCRIPTION: New Top Level Domain (nTLD) names have been proposed as a way of increasing the namespace choices available to Netizens worldwide. Currently people have only two choices: national registries and the traditional .COM/.ORG/.NET TLDs. Many nTLDs have been proposed to offer expanded identification opportunities for individuals, businesses and organizations. However, this raises various issues such as how many nTLDs are feasible, what are the required technical standards to run a Network Information Center (NIC) or Domain Name Registry (DNR) and so on. nTLD's are becoming more and more essential as more and more people utilize the Internet for their everyday communications. Everyone is experiencing the problem of a rapidly diminishing number of viable Domains. There is an urgent need to define mechanisms to achieve new Top Level Domain capabilies. Some of the issues that needs to be addressed are: 1. What are the basic technical requirements for Domain Name Registries (DNR). What are the technical requirements for Network Information Centres (NIC). Is there a differance between the two and if so we have to begin defining those differances. 2. Is there a necessity for various grades or "flavours" of DNR/nTLD (ie non-profit, commercial, small, mid-size, corporate). Are "shared" and "private" DNR/nTLD technically practical? Can shared and private DNRs technically co-exist. 3. What are the limitations and hindrances in existing software which may place practical limitations on the number of New TLDs. 4. How to provide Quality of Service while allowing widely dispersed, decentralized nTLD/DNRs and NICs. 5. Issues around "Root" servers. There are two basic challenges with naming: How to announce a server based on its nTLD, and how to find that server based on it's IP address. Currently this is done by 13 private Root servers to which all Domain Name Servers computers worldwide point to for that information. Is there a need for more Root Servers? What sort of technical regulation of these root servers require? How can we ensure universality of Internet addressing and still allow maximal dispersion of nTLDs, DNRs and NICs? The goals of the New Top Level Domain Name BOF are: 1. Decide if there is a need to form a working group to solve some or all of the problems above. 2. Which of the problems above should be addressed by the working group. 3. What will the working group produce. In our opinion, we need to interact with other groups such as various bodies of the UN, national governments, industry representatives and the general Netizenry to solve some or all of the problems above. 4. What other problems need to be solved for succesful deployment of new TLD's. AGENDA: Introduction, agenda review. Issue Briefs - 2 minute summaries of position papers to be filed and available on-line Discussion - succinct questions; 2 minute limit on answers, details and expansions presented as on-line addenda. Conclusion - organizing next steps. </PRE>______________FINISH TeleVirtually Yours, Bob Allisat Director, World TeleVirtual Network http://www.wtv.net PO Box 191 St E Toronto Canada M6H 4E2 info at wtv.net -------- Logged at Sun Feb 1 23:35:32 MET 1998 ---------