Re: Conflict resolution?

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 7:54 PM -0800 11/20/96, Michael Dillon wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Simon Higgs wrote:
>
> > > IANA did not accept applications for iTLD registries.
> >
> > Nice fantasy. Wrong answer. At least 2 new TLDs (for Jersey & Guernsey)
> > have been processed and placed into the root since the original newdom
> > list started.
>
> Perhaps definitions are in order...
>
> TLD - Top Level Domain. This is the righmost suffix found on Internet
>       domain names, i.e. .COM, .UK and so on.
>
> iTLD - International TLD. This is a TLD that is open to domain name
>        registrations from any country. Currently this list includes
>        .COM, .ORG, .NET, .EDU and .INT. Note that .EDU is restricted to
>        degree granting institutions and .INT is managed by the ITU
>        committee T-666.
>
> ISO 3166 TLD - these are the two letter TLD's that are delegated to the
>                control of a national organization in each individual
>                country. After the initial delegation they are no
>                longer subject to the control of IANA or the international
>                Internet community. The name refers to the two character
>                ISO 3166 country codes, as used by the International
>                Postal Union, that form these TLD's.
>
> legacy TLD - there are two legacy TLD's, .MIL and .GOV that are delegated
>              to the control of the US government and UD DOD due to
>              the history of the Internet.
>
> .ARPA - This TLD was historically used by the US DOD's ARPA project and
>         is now only used for the in-addr.arpa database which provides
>         reverse DNS lookups to translate an IP address into an FQDN
>         (Fully Qualified Domain Name).
>
> Thus Jersey and Guernsey recieved ISO 3166 TLD's, not iTLD's.
>

rs.internic.net/netinfo/iso3166-countrycodes

#Codes from ISO 3166
#
#Updated by the RIPE Network Coordination Centre, in coordination with
#the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency at DIN Berlin.
#
#Latest change: Thu Feb 10 10:20:28 MET 1994
#

No Jersey. No Guernsey. Either InterNIC's ISO 3166 information is out
of date (!), or they fall into the first category.  Both TLDs were
created in 1996.

> > IANA gave out specific instructions for TLD applicants.  There was no
> > draft-postel back then. There wasn't even the draft-ybmk (sp?)
> > predecessor.
>
> I'll have to check some mail archives before commenting on that. I do
> recall submitting both the Internic timestamp and a preliminary
> application based on the drafts but I can't recall the sequence or the
> dates right now.
>

Please do. See if you can find any reference to the IAHC process before
September 1995. That's when the first of the current wave of TLD
applications went in to IANA.

Simon

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