Re: The museum and heritage sectors

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 9:25 PM +0100 11/26/96, Cary Karp wrote:

> I am responsible for several second level domains maintained
> within the museum community. The most significant of these is
> probably icom.org, operated by the International Council of
> Museums. ICOM is a non-governmental organization (NGO)
> associated with UNESCO and is unique within the museum community
> in the nature and scope of its mandate. Museums, in turn, enjoy
> the dubious status in the iTLD context of being explicitly
> excluded from registration in the three-letter domains. (Quoting
> from the InterNIC registration form, "museums register under
> country domains.")
>
[SNIP]
>
> The Postel memo raised the hope of all this changing. If the
> museum sector were to end up among those that had its own
> iTLD, notions of guessable and memorable domain designations
> might be realized. Since commercial actors in the network world
> continuallly express keen interest in exploiting museums' rich
> content resources, the thought of our being the focus of
> commercial interest in the iTLD regard is not far-fetched. We
> are, however, equally concerned that we might not be regarded as
> having enough remunerative value for commercially oriented domain
> operators to go to any great lengths to cater to our needs. We
> would certainly perceive no benefit to being tucked into some
> general purpose domain such as the draft-iahc-higgs .ARTS
> ("Education; providing of training;sporting and cultural activities.")
>

Put in a proposal/request. Any new TLDs created by the IAHC will be
placed into section 6.6.1.

(I'm not an IAHC member)


Simon

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