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International Ad Hoc Committee (iahc)
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Charter
Last Modified: 21-Nov-96
Current Status: concluded working group
Chair(s):
Don Heath <heath@isoc.org>
General Area Director(s):
Mailing Lists:
General Discussion:
To Subscribe:
Archive:
Description of Working Group:
The purpose of the BOF is to discuss the recent formation of the
Interent Assignment Hierarchy Coalition (IAHC), present its work
to date and thoughts for making progress, and to solicit comments
and respond to questions from the IETF community.
From the IAHC's charter:
The Domain Name System (DNS) is an essential component in the
Internet's operational infrastructure. Designed for locating
machines on the Internet, it maps between their human-friendly
names and their transport (IP) addresses. Machine names are a
series of textual fields, representing a registration and lookup
hierarchy. Each registry in the hiearchy is delegated authority
from the registry above. A number of "Top Level Domain" (TLD)
registries already exist: one for each country, and a small number
which are international (iTLD) such as .com, .org and .net. For
more than ten years the set of TLD registries was stable and
sufficient. The recent explosive commercialization of the Internet
has produced a requirement for enhanced assignment procedures.
A complicating factor is that the human-friendly quality of Domain
Name strings has also made them commercially valuable. The IAHC
is an international multi- organization effort, for specifying and
implementing policies and procedures relating to iTLD.
Goals and Milestones:
Internet-Drafts:
No Current Internet-Drafts.
Request For Comments:
None to date.