Re: IETF BOF: LA, March 98

["Rick H. Wesson" <wessorh@ar.com>]

Bob,

The IETF has had two (2) BOFs on gTLDs and Shared Registries.

I'd be happy to dig up the minutes from them. I chaired both.
In summary the members of the BOFs came to the consensus that 
the discussion of gTLDs and the functionalty of a Shared Registry
was not, something that the IETF does. There were no protocls
identified that needed to be developed, thats what the IETF does.

The members of the BOFs and the Area Directors, and IESG did not
identify any area that the IETF could help out with. The general 
feeling was that gTLDs are a policy issue. As we all know to well
you can't write a protocol to solve the political issues surrounding
gTLDs.

IMHO, the IETF isn't the place to solve any of the issues that
float around on the DNS policy lists.

-Rick


On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Bob Allisat wrote:

> >41st INTERNET ENGINEERING TASK FORCE	     Last updated: January 27, 1998
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> >DATES: March 30 - April 3, 1998       
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>  I respectfully request an IETF BOF
>  for the upcoming IETF meeting in