RFC-2001-07-01-000 IPv8 Expansion of Proof of Concept TLD Development http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/130dftmail/unir.txt
Whereas, on June 10, 2001 the IETF was notified of "Proof of Concept TLD Development...and Multiple TLD Clusters" http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/ietf/Current/msg12215.html Whereas, the IPv4 Internet has not crashed. Whereas, on June 19, 2001 www.New.Net announced an expansion from 20 TLDs to 30 TLDs. http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/micro_stories.pl?ACCT=156973&TICK=NEWN&STO RY=/www/story/06-19-2001/0001516612&EDATE=Jun+19,+2001 Whereas, the IPv4 Internet has not crashed. Whereas, tools are now readily available to IPv4 Internet users to query the status of TLDs. http://root-dns.org Whereas, the IPv4 Internet has not crashed. Whereas, on June 26, 2001 ICANN announced Proof of Concept testing by USC IANA researchers for .BIZ and .INFO http://www.icann.org/announcements/icann-pr26jun01.htm Whereas, the IPv4 Internet has not crashed. Whereas on October 25, 2001 Microsoft plans to launch Windows XP with the capability built-in to support IPv8-style, IPv6 routing, via 2002:<IPv4> prefixes. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/default.asp Whereas, on October 14, 2001 IN-ADDR.INFO was allocated to manage the IPv8 Address Space located at 2002:<IPv4>:0000:3:129.*.*.*.*:0000. http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/130dftmail/unir.txt 3:219 INFO It is resolved, that the IPv8 Address Space 3:129 is allocated for the purposes of expanding the IPv8 Proof-of-Concept TLD expansion, and for the purpose of establishing commercial services to support the .INFO Community and the appropriate registries and infrastructure required to securely provide those services on a more stable Next Generation Internet. Jim Fleming Why gamble with a .BIZ Lottery? Start a real .BIZ Today ! http://www.DOT-BIZ.com 0:212 - BIZ World http://www.unir.com/images/architech.gif http://www.unir.com/images/address.gif http://www.unir.com/images/headers.gif http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/130dftmail/unir.txt http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/sdks/platform/tpipv6/start.asp http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/ietf/Current/msg12213.html http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/ietf/Current/msg12223.html
