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IP: ICANN To Evaluate Internet Keywords
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 10:37:56 -0500
From: Richard Forno <rforno () infowarrior org> To: <farber () cis upenn edu> Organization: www.infowarrior.org Can anyone else say "mission creep"?? rick infowarrior.org http://www.washtech.com/news/regulation/14813-1.html > Addressing Authorities Will Tackle Internet Keywords > By David McGuire, > Newsbytes.com Staff Writer > Thursday, January 24, 2002; 8:30 AM >> Internet "keywords" and other devices that simplify Web navigation will come > under the scrutiny of online naming authorities when the Internet Corporation> for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) convenes this March in Africa. > > ICANN, which manages the Internet's worldwide addressing system, will - for> the first time - address the issue of "higher-layer" naming at its meeting in> Ghana, ICANN spokeswoman Mary Hewitt said Wednesday. >> Higher-layer naming refers to Internet navigation tools that are superimposed > on the existing addressing structure. Companies like RealNames Corp. that link> "keywords" to traditional ".com" addresses are offering higher-layer naming > services. > > When RealNames links an Internet keyword to an existing Internet address,> Internet surfers using Microsoft's Internet Explorer can visit the address by> simply typing in the keyword (e.g. ACME) rather than the entire name (e.g. > ACME.com). >> While such offerings don't come directly under ICANN's scope, Hewitt said that > the ICANN Board will address potential concerns about how higher-layer naming> systems interact with the underlying addressing architecture. >> The board, which makes all final ICANN decisions, will look to determine how > and whether ICANN should craft addressing policies to account for the growing> extent of higher-layer naming activities. >> Questions about whether some higher-layer names should be counted as separate > Internet addresses and about the interactivity of higher-layer names that use> non-Roman characters will be addressed at the meeting, Hewitt said
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