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

[bill@mail.nic.nu (J. William Semich)]

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...

See:

http://web1.i-dns.net/aboutus/media/0010.html
http://web1.i-dns.net/iDNS/namereg.html
http://web1.i-dns.net/opportunities/registrar.html
http://www.idns.net.sg/
(all the above are in English)

http://home.timenet.net/i-dns.phtml (in Chinese)

And that if other alternative root server services choose to support the
iDNS activities to create some kind of worldwide group of non-ICANN
multilingual TLDs, IANA/ICANN would have no role or interest in that as
well...

Regards,

Bill Semich
.NU Domain