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[council] Proposal for Internet Domain Name Olympic Marathon
Collegues,
Whereas I sent the message below to the WG-C list, I feel
that the proposal for Internet Domain Name Olympic Marathon
may be of interest for the entire DNSO. If adopted, we may
have a yearly domain names testbed (similar to the Interop concept
for the IETF), it may bring At-large membership to the ICANN
and the DNSO, and be as well a permanent mean of earning funds for the
DNSO itself. FWIW.
Elisabeth
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> From porteneu Tue Dec 14 21:33:07 1999
> To: weinberg@mail.msen.com, wg-c@dnso.org
> Subject: Re: [wg-c] IMPORTANT: CONSENSUS CALL
>
> Dear Collegues,
>
> My vote is NO.
>
> I have enormous difficulties to imagine what means
> *the addition of new global top-level domains should
> begin with a first round of 6-10 new gTLDs followed
> by an evaluation period*
> once commercial operations starts.
>
> In such a situation it would be necessary to define a testbed
> and *mesure* what happens.
>
> Therefore I submit here a proposal for mesurements and observations
> of one new gTLD, I call it .marathon2000.
>
> 1. The domain names registered under .marathon2000 will be never used,
> and the registration will be at no cost to registrants.
> 2. The .marathon2000 will be open for 6 month, with the goal
> to register as many domain names as possible, more than million
> would be appreciate.
> 3. To achieve the goal of one million domain names, a worldwide
> competition should be open, let's call it the First Internet
> Domain Name Olympic Marathon.
> 4. The .marathon2000 gTLD will be run on shared registrars base
> 5. Few competitions are possible, in registrars and registrants
> categories. As the purpose is testing, on the one side it is
> important to reward those who register the biggest number of domain
> names, on the other it is important to give an opportunity to
> the Intellectual Property or Non-Commercial or other groups
> to set up few files with names to be excluded and which exclusion
> could be tested in the competition (trademark, public institutions,
> country names, ... anything else the people feel should be excluded;
> the purpose is not to make any judgement about merits of any list,
> but request every group to do the work and to put lists of its
> names together). It is expected that lists of names to be excluded
> will evolve during competition.
> As it is a testing field, it is also important to find out as many
> buggs as possible in a software or a system -- this activity
> should be encouraged and rewarded too.
> Eventually montly/weekly statistics and observations should
> be done, both concerning the number and the nature of registered
> names and whatever appropriate.
> 6. Probably the most difficult is to find registrants, those willing
> spend time and working their imagination about names to be registered.
> Therefore it is necessary to have a big support from the
> industry of service providers, software providers, microcomputers,
> telcos, medias and all involved in the Internet to make the
> Internet Domain Name Olympic Marathon known worldwide.
> 7. It is expected that the Internet Marathon idea is attractive
> to all stakeholders, therefore finacing mechanism will somewhat
> be solved.
>
> Once the Olympic Marathon ended, all .marathon200 whois database
> will remain in the archives of history as a public ressource.
> The zone files for all domain names will point to the same two
> IP numbers of two NS servers, set up only for this purpose of
> this competition.
>
> I believe that at the end of such an experiment we may know better,
> every one of us, how a new gTLD may work in today conditions.
> What worries me is that all discussions about new gTLDs reference
> the past -- the beggining of the comercial Internet deployement,
> and it *was* slow in 1993-4 comparing to what we observe today.
>
> Bottom line - each interested group will be able to mesure the impact
> of such a new gTLD to its interests, and feel safe because this
> prototype will be never used, but will help to understand and
> calibrate the system for the real new gTLDs to come.
>
> As a side effect of the Internet Marathon we may substantially
> increase the participation in the ICANN/DNSO process, and find
> new At-large members.
>
> Elisabeth Porteneuve
>