RE: [ga] Older registrations

["Roberto Gaetano" <roberto.gaetano@voila.fr>]

Simon Higgs wrote:

>
>I was there. You weren't. You can say whatever you want. I'll stand by 
the 
>historical facts:
>
>In 1995/1996, IANA solicited new iTLD requests under the guidelines 
laid 
>out in RFC1591. IANA received many new iTLD applications and published 
the 
>results on the IAHC-discuss mailing list (archived at www.gtld-mou.org 
for 
>some inexplicable reason). At the same time, IANA started the process 
to 
>establish unquestionable authority to formally introduce new TLDs 
>(beginning with the "Postel drafts" and now under ICANN). The iTLD 
>applications received by IANA were printed out and placed in a file at 
IANA 
>(I've seen the file - it exists) pending the results of that process.
>
>And here we are.
>


I was not there, but I would like to comment anyhow on your passages 
above.

What strikes me is that, at the origin, we had a "simple" problem of 
enhancing the Domain Name space with the introduction of new gTLDs (or 
iTLDs, if you prefere).
We went through different efforts, committees of any sort, papers of 
different colours, even the attempt to define a new model for Internet 
Governance, but, as you well put it "and here we are", years later, with
 a lot of discussions, and maybe even results, but with the starting 
question about new gTLDs still unanswered.

Why?

Regards
Roberto
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