Cary,

Congratulations!  We all know that it was your hard work that brought this
about.  I hope it is a satisfying achievement for you.  I am sure that the
museum community will take full advantage of this opportunity once all of
its possibilities are revealed.  You should be proud!

Sandy Lorimer

----- Original Message -----
From: Cary Karp <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 11:49 PM
Subject: Press release about .museum


> Museum Domain Management Association - MuseDoma
>
> www.musedoma.org
>
> For immediate release - November 20, 2000
>
> Press Contacts:
>
> Jean Miao
> Assoc. Communications Specialist
> The J. Paul Getty Trust
> +1 310 440 6617
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>
> Valerie Jullien
> Communications Officer
> International Council of Museums
> +33 1 4568 2836
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>
> DOT-MUSEUM (.museum) NAMED AS ONE OF SEVEN WINNERS IN EXPANSION
> OF INTERNET DOMAIN NAMES
>
> General public to benefit from unified museum presence on
> Internet
>
> Los Angeles-The Museum Domain Management Association (MuseDoma)
> has announced the approval of its proposal to establish .museum
> as a restricted top-level domain name on the Internet. The
> approval was made by the board of directors of the Internet
> Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the nonprofit
> organization that provides oversight for domain names. MuseDoma's
> plan will give museums the possibility of registering Internet
> addresses with a dot-museum suffix and will allow Internet users
> to recognize this as a sign of authenticity, ensuring that
> sources of information about cultural and scientific heritage are
> verifiable.
>
> "We're very pleased about ICANN's selection of dot-museum as a
> new domain name," stated Cary Karp, president of MuseDoma and
> director of the Department of Information Technology at the
> Swedish Museum of Natural History. "Dot-museum will provide a
> platform for facilitating and encouraging all of the varied and
> unique activities that are part of a museum's mission. Its
> existence will benefit the public, as well as professional
> audiences that seek online communication and education. We look
> forward to working with ICANN in the final steps of having
> .museum in operation within the next year."
>
> MuseDoma is a newly formed nonprofit trade association created to
> obtain, maintain, and operate a restricted, top-level domain for
> and in the best interests of the worldwide museum community. It
> was founded by the International Council of Museums (ICOM) and
> the J. Paul Getty Trust and will have an open membership. The
> .museum domain will be restricted, with eligibility limited to
> museums and their professional organizations based on ICOM's
> definition of a museum, which continues to be discussed and
> modified as the museum field evolves.
>
> ICOM is a non-governmental organization established in 1946 with
> over 16,000 members. It defines a museum as "a nonprofit-making,
> permanent institution in the service of society and of its
> development, and open to the public, which acquires, conserves,
> researches, communicates, and exhibits, for purposes of study,
> education, and enjoyment, material evidence of people and their
> environment."
>
> The J. Paul Getty Trust-in addition to operating the Getty
> Museum, Research Institute, and Conservation Institute-plays a
> philanthropic role for museums around the world and serves the
> professional field in many ways, including through the Getty
> Leadership Institute.
>
> Since submitting its application in October 2000, MuseDoma's
> dot-museum proposal has received overwhelmingly positive support
> from museums, both large and small, from around the world through
> ICANN's online public comment forum.
>
> "MuseDoma applauds ICANN's vision and courage in the decisions it
> has made and knows that this shared domain will help museums
> coalesce their efforts on the World Wide Web," stated Kenneth
> Hamma, director of MuseDoma and assistant director of the J. Paul
> Getty Museum. "It will be of special benefit to museums that have
> yet to establish themselves online. A shared domain identity is
> precisely what is needed."
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