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Username: fabrcop
Date/Time: Mon, November 13, 2000 at 12:16 AM GMT
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Subject: Another very interesting article!!!

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http://www.afternic.com/index.cfma=th&fid=46&tid=19010&mid=23295#23295

I understand that this is a Bloomberg article
(I can't find the original source - however the article was posted by jtrade on afternic.com)

A few interesting excerpts:

Internet Oversight Group Plans to Expand Web Address System

  Marina del Rey, California, Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) -- The global Internet oversight group is ready to expand the Web address system this week, ending the dominance of VeriSign Inc. while prompting charges of impropriety and hypocrisy.
[VeriSign owns Network Solutions]

[snip]

The group wants to add one-word, easy-to- remember Web addresses and create more competition in the business of maintaining databases that make the Internet work.

Its process has Internet users crying foul, saying the group is pandering to large corporations and abandoning principles it outlined to decide.
Staff narrowed a list of several dozen proposed suffixes to about 14
favorable bids

[snip]

Tensions could intensify as Icann convenes its annual meeting in Marina del Rey, California, tomorrow. It expects more than 800 attendees, most with strong opinions about the various new domains.

[snip]

Icann has declined to specify
how many new address domains it will adopt, saying only it plans to accept a limited number. Likely candidates include .web, .biz, .ecom or .info for general topics; .nom, .per, or .i for personal home pages; and .health, .museum or .union for specific content.

Consensus Decisions

The board, with 19 members operating by consensus, will act Thursday on the issue and is free to ignore the staff recommendations.
[VERY IMPORTANT !  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^]

The new domains likely will become operational in the second quarter next year, Icann staff told reporters on a conference call Friday.
[I hope that .web can become operational even before the second
quarter next year - this is possible with IOD's .web registry
but it is NOT possible with Afilias, that does NOT have a registry
at this time and wants to implement a long Sunrise Period]

[snip]

Hundreds of comments posted on Icann's Web forum and press releases from applicants have objected to the direction being taken by Icann.

Closely held Image Online Design Inc. in San Luis Obispo, California, is one such commentator. It is competing against a consortium of 19 companies, including VeriSign, known as Afilias LLC to gain control of the .web domain.

Image Online runs a .web domain outside the main Internet server, and has registered about 20,000 sites. The company failed to win positive feedback from Icann staff, unlike Afilias. Some Web comments say backing Afilias's bid would boost VeriSign's power and hurt competition.

``ICANN's report seriously misrepresents the technical and financial merits of IOD's application,'' said Chief Technology Officer Christopher Ambler.
The report ``includes misinformed criticism as well as several outright errors.''

[snip]

Fabrizio Coppola
Italy

 

Link: Bloomberg article


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