[NTLUG:Discuss] NTIA Request Comments on ".US"

[juice@airmail.net]

Yes it is a forward but I couldn't word it better and may be of
interest to some on this list.

>The National Telecom and Information Agency (an office in the US Dept of
>Commerce) has issued a request for comments on the ".US" ccTLD.  Pasted
>below is the media advisory with the URL to the full federal register
>notice.         Please distribute wherever appropriate.
>
>
>****M E D I A A D V I S O R Y****
>
>WASHINGTON- The Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and
>Information Administration (NTIA), in a notice to be published shortly
>in the Federal Register, announced a Notice and a Request for public
>comment on a draft statement of work that the department contemplates
>will be ultimately incorporated into a request for proposals to manage
>.us on behalf of the U.S. government.
>
>The .us domain is the "national" or "country code" top level domain
>(ccTLD) assigned to the United States for domain name registration and
>is currently managed as a locality-based hierarchy in which second-level
>domain space is allocated to States and U.S. territories.
>
>In its Federal Register notice, NTIA said the draft statement of work is
>part of an effort to develop a more concrete framework for the
>procurement of .us domain space administration services. The Federal
>Register notice requesting comments can be accessed at
>www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/usrfc2/dotusrfc2.htm
>
>Public comments are due no later than 45 days after the notice is
>published in the Federal Register. For more information on NTIA's work
>on the .us domain space issue, please visit the domain name web site,
>www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/domainhome.htm
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