New Domain Is Proposed

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

Delivered-To: dfarber+ () ux13 sp cs cmu edu
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 08:01:16 -0500
From: Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine <brunner () nic-naa net>
Subject: Re: [IP] New Domain Is Proposed
To: dave () farber net
Dave,

I wasn't paying too much attention, but I had lunch with a woman from the
WHO who was at the Rome ICANN meeting on behalf of a .health proposal/bin,
I sat next to and chatted with someone who dropped $50,000 on the 2001
round and was back for another bite of the apple at $45,000 for .travel,
and I'm assisting a Catalonean cultural and linguistic proposal.

I'm sure there are more. The deadline for the money drop to ICANN was
yesterday, the e-filing deadline for the proposals is the 16th.

I didn't hear about the .mobile proposal until this item of mail, but
it isn't particularly surprisng.

Feel free to forward to ip.

Eric

P.S. I sent this to NANOG last night, you're welcome to it too:

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To: nanog () merit edu
Subject: Asking about .iq at ICANN Rome
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 22:38:07 -0500
From: Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine <brunner () nic-naa net>


Oki all,

Apropos of plaintive discussion by gTLD registries about repurposed
ccTLDs such as .{bz,cc,md,pw,tv}, I asked Paul Twomey during the 1st
open mic hour about the current status of .iq.

The net of the response was "we know less than you do" and a longish
and booring statement that got read the next morning to punish all
and sundry, which hasn't made it into the meeting minutes.

Later, during the 2nd open mic hour when the subject of ICANN staff
and NS change requests (secondary followed by primary, effecting
covert redelegation) came up, I asked whether staff had any data to
share on communications of any kind concerning .iq.

Recall: The .iq sponsor and operator are in a Federal pen in Texas
and are awfully quiet. See http://nic-iq.nic-naa.net for what little
I know about .iq.

The net of the response was "we have gotten above double-digit
inquiries from various parties concerning the .iq space", and no
corroborating details beyond this assertion will be available.

Life being the random thing that it is, I ran into a Haliburton
contractor in Rome, who knew that RTI got the Iraq schools deal,
so most of whatever could go into the .k12.iq zone, easily 1k of
site entries, is already on file somewhere inside www.rti.org.

Life being even further random, the dns-free mobile infrastructure
of Iraq is now being advertized in the broadcast media in Rome.

Folks interested in this please drop me a note.

Folks interested in ICANN'T should note that with WLS, the base
registry price for a domain name just went from $6/yr to $30/yr,
with the usual caveats that it really is just $6/yr unless one,
or someone, wants the additional $24/yr WLS subscription value.

The current crop of alternatives to ICANN now includes:

The ITU: http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/forum/intgov04/

The UN: http://www.unicttaskforce.org/sixthmeeting/

and Weinstein, Neuman, and Farber have something cooking on the
general failure of packetized life that is nominally relevant:
http://www.pfir.org/meltdown/

That's my 0.02 &euro; for this evening. This list actually was
mentioned by name at ICANN.

Forward as appropriate, or inappropriate.

Eric

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