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. Kenneth Hamma Asst. Director, J. Paul Getty Museum Proj. Director, www.getty.edu 1200 Getty Center Drive, 1000 Los Angeles, CA 90049 E [log in to unmask] T 310 440 7186 F 310 440 7752 >>> [log in to unmask] 11/17/00 08:40AM >>> In article <[log in to unmask]>, on Tue, 10 Oct 2000 at 22:53:16, Cary Karp <URL: mailto:[log in to unmask]> writes >Here's the whole story so far! > >http://www.museumdomain.net/ The BBC radio news announced this morning that the .museum domain, among others, had been approved, . If this can be confirmed, what will be the mechanism for institutions to start using it, and when is that mechanism likely to be in place? Leonard Will -- Willpower Information (Partners: Dr Leonard D Will, Sheena E Will) Information Management Consultants Tel: +44 (0)20 8372 0092 27 Calshot Way, Enfield, Middlesex EN2 7BQ, UK. Fax: +44 (0)20 8372 0094 [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] ---------------- <URL:http://www.willpowerinfo.co.uk/> ----------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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