---------- From: Jim Fleming[SMTP:JimFleming] Sent: Sunday, May 03, 1998 9:25 AM To: DOMAIN-POLICY at LISTS.INTERNIC.NET Cc: 'Antitrust List'; 'antitrust at usdoj.gov'; 'Antony Van Couvering'; 'BBURR at ntia.doc.gov'; 'charles mueller'; 'Dan_Cohen at ntia.doc.gov'; 'dnrc-board at domain-name.org'; 'Dotty Sparks'; 'editor at vibj.com'; 'David Farber'; 'Hank Nussbacher'; 'Don Heath'; 'Ira_C._Magaziner at oa.eop.gov'; 'Ivan Pope'; 'jason at ICANECT.NET'; 'jlucas at UVI.EDU'; 'Peter deBlanc'; 'Jon Postel'; 'rhanscom at USVI.NET'; 'Steven Pitzl'; 'Steve Wolff'; 'zbvi at caribsurf.com' Subject: RE: .VI = Virgin Islands ? On Sunday, May 03, 1998 9:04 AM, Richard J. Sexton[SMTP:richard at SEXTON.COM] wrote: @>@@@ http://www.zbvi.vi @> @>"ZBVI is the principal commercial and only "AM" radio station in the British Virgin Islands." @ @Waitta minute. NetNames site said "companies must use .co.vi". @ @Whats going on here? @ @I think if I paid thousands of dollars to NetNames to "protect my name" @and they gave me, say netscape.co.vi, I'd be pretty annoyed if Microsoft @(say) obtained netscape.vi and put MSIE there. @ @Good thing the "government sets policy" and NetNames's Antony Van Couvering @stated. @ @.emacs anybody ? @ @ @ @-- @Richard J. Sexton | Cheap ISDN + T1 feeds. @richard at vrx.net | Creative domain names. @VRx Network Services, | CGI/Database programmer. @Toronto, Canada | Web design with an attitude. @+1 (613) 473-1719 | http://richard-resume.vrx.net @ @ As a web designer, you also have to be concerned. If you can NOT get names in .VI but other companies can, then you can not design web sites. Or...your customers may be forced to get a domain name via Netnames under co.vi and they may not want that. Hank Nussbacher over in Israel (not Illinois), and a member of the Blue Ribbon IAHC claims that this is all well-organized. If you recall, he wrote... ======================== ---------- From: Hank Nussbacher[SMTP:hank at ibm.net.il] Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 1998 2:46 AM To: Jim Fleming; 'tld-wg at ripe.net' Subject: Re: Should Two Letter TLDs Be Immune ? At 03:20 PM 4/27/98 -0500, Jim Fleming wrote: In your opinion? Want to make a mess of nTLDs as has happened to gTLDs? RFC1591 defines specific rules as to what is allowed or not allowed. To quote: 3) The designated manager must be equitable to all groups in the domain that request domain names. This means that the same rules are applied to all requests, all requests must be processed in a non-discriminatory fashion, and academic and commercial (and other) users are treated on an equal basis. No bias shall be shown regarding requests that may come from customers of some other business related to the manager -- e.g., no preferential service for customers of a particular data network provider. There can be no requirement that a particular mail system (or other application), protocol, or product be used. 4) Significantly interested parties in the domain should agree that the designated manager is the appropriate party. The IANA tries to have any contending parties reach agreement among themselves, and generally takes no action to change things unless all the contending parties agree; only in cases where the designated manager has substantially mis-behaved would the IANA step in. However, it is also appropriate for interested parties to have some voice in selecting the designated manager. There are two cases where the IANA and the central IR may establish a new top-level domain and delegate only a portion of it: (1) there are contending parties that cannot agree, or (2) the applying party may not be able to represent or serve the whole country. The later case sometimes arises when a party outside a country is trying to be helpful in getting networking started in a country -- this is sometimes called a "proxy" DNS service. The Internet DNS Names Review Board (IDNB), a committee established by the IANA, will act as a review panel for cases in which the parties can not reach agreement among themselves. The IDNB's decisions will be binding. ===== - Jim Fleming Unir Corporation IBC, Tortola, BVI http://vi.caribnic.net -------- Logged at Sun May 3 16:44:59 MET DST 1998 ---------