Elizabeth and all, This is a fine proposal, but what does it do to correct the mistreatment and SELECTIVE CENSORSHIP YOU Elisabeth have imposed unjustly and illegitimately towards EXISTING DNSO members? Elisabeth Porteneuve wrote: > 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 > -- > > > From porteneu Tue Dec 14 21:33:07 1999 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 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 > > bugs 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 > > Regards, -- Jeffrey A. Williams Spokesman INEGroup (Over 95k members strong!) CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng. Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC. E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact Number: 972-447-1894 Address: 5 East Kirkwood Blvd. Grapevine Texas 75208
