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Date/Time: Thu, November 16, 2000 at 7:44 AM GMT
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Subject: .POST - 16 Postal Administrations formally support and endorse the .post TLD proposal

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To the ICANN Board of Directors

.POST is a domain for every individual or business that relies on the Post and associated industries to deliver their mail and goods. With the Internet, mail now comes in other forms. To ensure that global communications and more importantly that global electronic commerce services can be trusted, the Posts propose to offer a  structure to facilitate in parallel physical, electronic and hybrid communications using the Internet. But more importantly, as we now live in a globalised world, we must offer global services and solutions. We are in every country, know every culture, speak every language. We understand the communication needs of children, their parents, governments, and businesses. They all need to communicate and conduct business.

The word POST is synonymous all over the world. People immediately relate to the services offered and the knowledge that the message will be delivered.

The Posts are there to serve the community – a Universal Service Obligation to provide services to all citizens all over the world –should the Internet be any different in relation to offering universal services to facilitate communication amongst people?

Part of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) mission, and as a UN specialised agency is to foster cooperation and assist developing countries in becoming active players, not just spectators in the Information Age. Many Posts are now installing internet kiosks in Post Offices to expand the use of the Internet by providing access points to communities who are not privileged to have the Internet in their homes.

Globalisation demands a framework to facilitate global communications in a trusted environment. That environment should be easily and automatically recognised by everyone. This does not preclude other entities from providing trust services, however, only Posts can offer a framework where individuals, business, governments and organisations can integrate and seamlessly offer their services.

Currently there is huge demand from business for services to support e-Business on a global scale. Many companies come to us and say “Please Help”. They have millions of potential customers in other countries that want to buy their products. These companies do not want to deal with Customs Duties, Currency Conversion, Foreign Taxes, and Government Regulations. More importantly, they have millions of customers who don’t have credit cards or are reluctant to use them on the Internet. The Posts can collect these payments and transfer the money via a trusted communication channel. Through the Posts, many of these services can be consolidated under a trusted global environment to facilitate growth in global e-commerce. The market is far greater than just the English-speaking world.

The efforts of the Postal Administrations and the UPU, combined, can introduce a parallel structure and framework for public, private and consumer communications over the Internet. Such a communications framework would complement the existing structures of protecting the public interest, privacy, security & legal validity under a globally recognized neutral & united domain, like that of today’s postal network, but electronically.

Having TRUST on the Internet is extremely important as the whole world begins to rely on the Internet as the preferred communication channel. We must ensure that the messages we send continue to be the messages that get delivered.

From here stems our commitment to support and endorse the establishment of a new Internet Top Level Domain Name - .post, which will provide a recognized framework to support the expansion of public communication by electronic means.

The .post domain is not a restricted domain just for the Posts. It is restricted only in the sense of the policies required to protect individuals and businesses in their everyday communications.

In due course we can provide business plans and strategies for each initiative that we undertake with our partners and other key market players. However, no single business plan can reflect accurately and comprehensively the scope of our vision and ambition to develop a global, social and economical infrastructure that can be trusted and made available to the most modest citizen.


Sincerely yours,


Thomas E. Leavey
Director General
Universal Postal Union


This letter is also formally endorsed by the Management of the Postal Administrations of:


1) United States of America
2) France
3) Sweden
4) Norway
5) Denmark
6) Switzerland
7) Finland
8) Australia
9) New Zealand
10) Japan
11) United Kingdom
12) Czech Republic
13) India
14) Tunisia
15) Hong Kong
16) Portugal


 


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