International Ad Hoc Committee (iahc) ------------------------------------- Charter Last Modified: 21-Nov-96 Current Status: concluded working group Chair(s): Don Heath 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.