[ga-roots] First collider

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 09:16 PM 5/11/01 +0200, you wrote:

>About colliders,  who do you think made it popular?  ICANN was not the 
>first, but they sure were the biggest.

The first real collider was .WEB and it was created by the 
IAHC/CORE/gTLD-MOU cartel (which was subsequently broken up by the US 
Government) in January 1997. Image Online Design (IOD), which had created 
.WEB under the guidance of Jon Postel and Draft Postel, sued. While the 
lawsuit was eventually dropped (and has been discussed here already), it 
did succeed in proving to the US Government that there was no consensus in 
the process.

 From http://www.gtld-mou.org/ :

"August 12, 1999: Following the intervention of the United States 
Government in management of Internet names and addresses starting in 
1997/1998 conducted through the offices of the United States Department of 
Commerce's National Telecommunication and Information Administration 
(NTIA), the gTLD-MoU activities related to revamping management of generic 
top level domains have now been jointly assumed by NTIA and a 
California-based corporation, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names 
and Numbers (ICANN)."



Best Regards,

Simon Higgs

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