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: > > - - - - - > >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. > >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > >Change ICOM-L subscription options, unsubscribe, and search the >archives at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/icom-l.html > > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Change ICOM-L subscription options, unsubscribe, and search the archives at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/icom-l.html