Re: Few ideas on preliminary global registry

[Hank Nussbacher <hank@ibm.net.il>]

At 10:50 AM 11/19/96 +0100, Elisabeth PORTENEUVE wrote:


>3. Before we start to put iTLD's into commercial chaos we need
>   to establish one global registry system to have means to
>   control it.
>   I mean: Internet Registry Office with global numbering system
>   for Internet citizens, Internet Registry Office for companies,
>   Internet banks, Internet law and Internet policy.
>   I would see the following scheme:
>     A company requesting an Internet domain name should first:
>     - register its owners or directorate members to the Internet
>       Registry Office for Internet citizens and get Internet universal
>       citizen numbers
>       (attributes: similar to a birth certificate, personnaly I would
>        add here geographical position of the birth place -- latitude
>        and longitude, as well as a reference to an office keeping
>        this birth record)
>     - register to the Internet Registry Office for companies, getting
>       Internet universal company number
>       (attributes: when, where, business sector, relevant law, ... )
>     Then and only then an iTLD office could accept to deliver an 
>     Internet domain, following some yet to be established rules.
>     This two registrations rules should also apply to all
>     other existing domains, .com included.
>     The Internet law should prohibit trademarks and copyrights 
>     on common names.
>   All registrations should be at very small fees, yearly charge for
>   companies, one time charge or no charge for Internet citizen 
>   registration. Fees should be paied to the Internet banks.
>
>   Creating Internet Registry Office with global numbering system
>   for Internet citizens could start global population registry,
>   something terribly missimg in common situations (I live in 
>   France, I was born in Poland; each time I need an important 
>   official document I have to apply to get my birth certificate
>   and I have it translated by an expensive official office --
>   all of it just to say I was born).

Interesting idea.  What time frame where you thinking would be
needed to create the IRO?

>
>4. The Internet is one, and its subdivision into country's top
>   level domains cannot help the achievement of the global society.
>   iTLD's should be distrubuted all over the world, and not only 
>   within USA. The same with Internet Registry offices.
>
>5. It does not make sense to expect the UN or the ITU or the ISO 
>   or Santa Claus to solve Internet names problems. These organisations 
>   cannot do a job.
>
>Amicalement,
>Elisabeth Porteneuve (speaking for myself)
>membre du Chapitre Francais de l'Internet Society
>
>
Hank Nussbacher
IAHC member
[The views expressed above are the authors alone and may not reflect
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