At 02:41 PM 5/15/98 +0200, Annie Renard wrote:

In your previous mail you wrote:

Until we get the entire list filled in, you may have to expand the diameter of your neighbor net to include more G:S slots.

http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/130dftmail/unir.txt

G:S TLD RP Web Site -------------------------------------------------- 3:207 FR (FRANCE) <------ 3:208 ATHENS 3:209 FLAKE 3:210 DK (DENMARK) <------- 3:211 MLT (MALTA) <----- 3:212 VIDEO 3:213 WINE <---------- jc.praud at ludexpress.com ?? web site ?? 3:214 RAILWAY 3:215 BALLOON 3:216 SVK (SLOVAKIA-(Slovak-Republic)) <----- 3:217 DNK (DENMARK) <----- 3:218 GRC (GREECE) <----- --------------------------------------------------

The following is a good source of leads for the above TLDs with the arrows.

http://www.ripe.net/centr/tld.html

For slots where we can not locate people, for example, 3:215 BALLOON, the people around that slot become the "managers" of the slot and help someone introduce a new TLD alias for the slot.

For example, David Rogers might want to use that slot for the .LTD TLD he is working on. Via the neighbor net approach, people can easily find a slot and add a new TLD that does not conflict with other TLDs. This is very much like entering an auditorium with 2,048 seats, looking around, and asking people..."is that seat taken ?".

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what is this raving ???

Annie, Jim is what one science fiction story termed an "agent provocateur" (where, when the world is totally wired and everyone is on email, along comes a person who talks the talk and walks the walk but is a bit demented and only a few people can see thru his techno-mumbo-jumbo as being garbage). His purpose in life is to drum up controversy and to have people run off in directions that are unproductive. Becky Burr, Ira Magaziner, Wilkenson and other political people cannot often differentiate people who know what they are talking about and others who mention IPv8 and who sound knowledgable. It is our responsibility to make sure that our voice is heard and not Jim's. He emails more than we do, he is far more persistent than we are, but if we fail to counter his "ravings" - we will soon see people discussing the benefits of stargates and IPv8 galaxies and balloons. -Hank

Yours,

--- Annie Renard [nic at nic.fr] AFNIC/NIC France c/o INRIA domaine de Voluceau BP105, 78153 Le Chesnay CEDEX, France http://www.nic.fr/ Personal Email: Annie.Renard at nic.fr

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