New York, NY -- September 11, 1997 -- Forty prominent Internet
professionals met in New York, NY to discuss technical issues
concerning the governing of new generic Top-Level Domain Names
(gTLDs).  The discussions focused on the implementation of the Council
of Registrars (CORE), which is planned to be operational by February
7, 1998.  A Request For Proposals, to be drafted, to invite any
interested parties to design and administer the all-important CORE
database system, will be immediately available on September 12.

Participants at this highly productive international meeting included
qualified Internet domain name registrars and other professionals
interested in the unique technical details of  the CORE shared
database/repository system.  The meeting marked another a major step
towards establishing the seven new generic top-level domains.

The generic Top-Level Domains are described further in a Memorandum of
Understanding (gTLD-MOU) submitted to the ITU.  Over 150 major
Internet organizations have signed the gTLD-MOU.  The RFP for the CORE
database drafted in New York last week furthers the project to
establish Internet domain name authority in the public trust.  These
efforts are also described in proposals put forward by IANA, ISOC,
IPOC, PAB, and other Internet organizations.

The Request For Proposals to design and administer the CORE database
system will be issued by September 26th to interested vendors.  The
deadline to submit finished proposals is October 3rd.

Due to the short and critical deadline date, a draft of this proposal
request will be available at http://www.core.gtld-mou.org/  For
further information, please contact:   info@core.gtld-mou.org.

About the PAB:

The Policy Advisory Board (PAB) is composed of all of the signatories
of the gTLD-MoU, deposited with the International  Telecommunications
Union (ITU.) The 150+ members of the PAB advise the Policy Oversight
Committee (POC) on issues relating to the governance of the generic
Top Level Domains (gTLDs) within the Internet's DNS. For more
information about the PAB please see our website at
http://www.pab.gtld-mou.org/

About Antony Van Couvering:

Mr. Van Couvering is the Director of the Policy Advisory Bord and  is
the president of Net Names USA. Netnames, the International Internet
Domain Names Registry, registers domain names for businesses in over
190 countries around the world for a one off fee. Netnames does not
charge ongoing or repeat fees for our registration services and we
offer FREE valuable services to make your use of your names as simple
as possible.

About Rick Wesson:

Mr. Wesson is a Senior Software Engineer for Organic Online, Inc. He
is the Deputy Director of the Policy Advisory Board, and the Chair of
the proto IETF working group CORE-DB. He has been an active
participant in many forums whose mission was to bring new gTLDs to the
Internet Community.
 

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Press Contacts:

Antony Van Couvering
Director, PAB
New York, NY
1.888.NETNAMES
avc@netnamesusa.com

Rick H. Wesson
Deputy Director, PAB
San Francisco, CA
415.567.6838
rick@ar.com
rick@organic.com

URLs:
    http://www.gtld-mou.org/
    http://www.pab.gtld-mou.org/
    http://www.core.gtld-mou.org/