[council] Fw: South Florida Lands Key Internet Name Directory Server

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> From: "Antonio Harris" <harris@cabase.org.ar>
> To: <owner-council@dnso.org>
> Subject: Fw: South Florida Lands Key Internet Name Directory Server 
> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 19:55:05 -0300
> 
> Fellow NC members,
> 
> In case you havent seen this:
> 
> Tony Harris
> 
> >>>
> 
> South Florida Lands Key Internet Name Directory Server
> 
> MIAMI (April 18, 2002) --  The South Florida community has added another 
> significant notch to its already impressive technology "belt" by landing 
> the relocation of one of the world's 13 Generic Top Level Domain 
> ("gTLD") name servers to the Miami-located NAP of the Americas.  The 
> name server is operated by Verisign, the keeper of the registry of all 
> .com, .net and .org domain names and is essential to the working of the 
> Internet.  By providing high speed conversion of natural language domain 
> names (such as "greatermiami.com") to machine-readable, "Internet 
> Protocol" addresses (such as 208.238.102.2) the name server permits 
> users to search for and locate Web sites by their natural language names 
> rather than by binary codes.  Without these name servers the World Wide 
> Web would not be as user-friendly as it is today. 
> 
> The relocation of the name server was jointly announced today by 
> Verisign, Inc. and by Terremark Worldwide, Inc./NAP of the Americas.  
> See the attached joint press release.
> 
> Relocation of one of the world's thirteen gTLD servers to South Florida 
> is a recognition of the region as a key location in the world of the 
> Internet and telecommunications.  South Florida now has two of the 
> world's seven tier-1 Network Access Points (NAPs) where major Internet 
> backbones communicate with one another and exchange data traffic. South 
> Florida was recently ranked as number five in the world in 
> telecommunications infrastructure, in part because of the Network Access 
> Points and its strategic positioning vis-a-vis Latin America and the 
> Caribbean.
> 
> The initiative to seek relocation of a name server in South Florida to 
> complement the location of the two tier-1 NAPs in the region originated 
> at the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce's Technology Group and was 
> promptly adopted as one of the Chamber's annual goals by the GMCC in 
> June of last year.  The initiative was the result of the combined vision 
> of South Florida technology attorney, Jose I. Rojas, and of Internet 
> domain name system expert, Michael Palage, of Tequesta, Florida.  The 
> initiative was immediately embraced and strongly supported by the 
> tri-county InternetCoast, led at the time by its co-founder, Jeff Kline. 
> 
> 
> "We are very pleased to see this vision become a reality.  It 
> revalidates the significance of our community as the Internet "gateway" 
> and business center of the Americas," said Jose Rojas, a founding 
> partner of Concepcion, Rojas & Santos LLP in Coral Gables and co-chair 
> of the technology Group's infrastructure committee.  "This would not 
> have been possible without the knowledge and insight of Michael Palage, 
> my co-chair in this effort.  His involvement with the ICANN domain name 
> system and his support for our community proved invaluable.  Of course, 
> ultimately, it was the quality,security and other merits of the 
> Terremark NAP facilities that clinched the deal."
> 
>