Re: Asian Alternative Roots (was RE: [wg-c] new TLDs)

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>]

At 07:14 AM 12/27/1999 , J. William Semich wrote:
>At 04:54 PM 12/23/99 -0800, Dave Crocker wrote:
> >"Allow" is exactly the term, since IANA/ICANN have authority for defining
> >that set of TLDs.
> >
> >.web is not in the IANA/ICANN root registry.  In other words it is not a
> >TLD for the IANA/ICANN domain name service.
>
>That would imply that this working group (and IANA/ICANN) would have no
>interest or role in the current iDNS activities to create an alternative
>Asian-language/character set root server system for the Asian language
>renderings of .com, .net, .org etc...

It does not imply that..  That effort is being well-coordinated with the 
IETF and IANA.

In any event, it has not yet created any TLDs; it is operating under 
existing ones.

d/

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