Dear Cary and all ICOM members,
congratulations
for the.MUSEUM!
Since the very beginning(at least 1996..)It was your idea ,Cary and you
supported It a long way.
Bravo!
Elisabeth Ponsolle des Portes
Former Secretary General



At 01:13 22/11/00 +0100, you wrote:
>Quoting John McAvity:
>
>> I am immediately interested in starting the registration
>> process to get CMA and our various interests registered.
>> Can you advise when this will process will open up.
>
>Here is the text that is currently being sent in response to
>registration information requests:
>
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>Thank you for your interest in registering in the .museum domain.
>
>On November 16, the Board of Directors of the Internet Corporation for
>Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), announced its selections for registry
>operators for new top level domains. The applications selected for further
>negotiation by the ICANN Staff include the one for .museum, submitted by
>the Museum Domain Management Association (MuseDoma). The proposed date for
>the completion of these negotiations is December 31, 2000. The resulting
>registry agreement must then be approved by the ICANN Board of Directors.
>Following that approval, the ICANN Board will forward its recommendations
>to the U.S. Department of Commerce for implementation.
>
>When the latter action has been taken, several additional months will be
>required to establish the technical and administrative procedures
>necessary to bring the new domain into operation. It is during this period
>that facilities will be established for accepting and processing
>registration requests. Although MuseDoma shares the museum community's
>eagerness to proceed, accepting any form of reservation or
>pre-registration for subdomains in .museum is simply not possible at this
>time.
>
>If you are interested in receiving notification of further developments,
>as they happen, you are encouraged to join the MUSEDOMA-NEWS e-mail
>distribution list. You may do this by addressing a message to
>[log in to unmask] On the first and only line in the body of the
>message, please write:
>
>SUBSCRIBE MUSEDOMA-NEWS Yourfirstname Yourlastname
>
>The information sent to the list, plus a good deal more, will also be
>found on the MuseDoma Web site at http://www.musedoma.org/
>
>It will take take about two weeks before the Web site is modified to
>reflect the new focus of MuseDoma's activity and the list is taken into
>full operation.
>
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