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IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) is currently responsible for
delegating the top level domains used in URL's, i.e. .COM, .ORG,
etc. Currently under consideration is a plan that would see new
international Top Level Domains created and new commercial registries (not
the Internic) to manage those domains. Most of the discussion is happening
on a mailing list at new...@iiia.org which you can subscribe to by sending

subscribe

to newdom-...@iiia.org or you can review the discussions to date at
http://www.iiia.org/lists/newdom/ especially the recent discussions. Over
the past 9 months we have come up with one main proposal that appears as
if it will be the core of an RFC. This is available at
ftp://ietf.cnri.reston.va.us/internet-drafts/draft-postel-iana-itld-admin-01.txt
There are a couple of other proposals also being discussed on the list.

Jon Postel will shortly be posting a revised draft of his proposal in
light of discussions that took place at the Montreal IETF meeting. Also,
there is information from the dissenting camp available at
http://www.alternic.nic  
For most of you, that domain name will be unreachable and you will need to
use http://www.alternic.net to reach it.

The plan is to have this system in place by year end and be registering
new domains by early 1997. You may soon see URL's like
http://www.industrial.plastics or http://www.spock.klingon appearing in a
magazine near you. If you want to have any input into this proceeding, now
is the time to speak up. 

Please forward this to any colleagues who may wish to have input into
these decisions. 

Michael Dillon                                   ISP & Internet Consulting
Memra Software Inc.                                 Fax: +1-604-546-3049
http://www.memra.com                             E-mail: mic...@memra.com