Foxbane Ltd and Steven Heath: InternetNZLinks, stories, posts relating to InternetNZ, the ccTLD Manager for .nzparliament.nz details in .nz newsletter- October 25, 2005 Office of the DNC has updated the .nz October newsletter with the actual links. The two documents of interest are: Revised parliament.nz application Revised moderation policy Both of these are interesting reading but raised some interesting questions to me. The first is that if I was a policital party in parliament I would nto activly use any domain name in this 2LD. It reduceds the 'brand' of the party and also puts it in the whim of the moderator if it will exist in the future, ie, after an.http://www.nznews.org.nz/categories/internetnz/2005/10/25.html#a613 .nz newsletter and the missing PDF links- October 25, 2005 DNC has issued the October .nz newsletter. The main information in this is the parliament.nz recommendation and the supporting material. The PDF newsletter claims to link to them but the documents are not linked in the newsletter. I have alerted the DNC office and they are looking into it.http://www.nznews.org.nz/categories/internetnz/2005/10/25.html#a612 Interview with Debbie Monahan (DNC)- October 20, 2005 This is the first of a number of interviews I am doing with people involved with .nz. The lucky person I picked first is Debbie (Deborah to her friends) Monahan, the .nz Domain Name Commissioner. After reading it you have any feedback, questions or suggestions drop me a line.Email interview with Debbie Monahan Domain Name Commissioner (DNC) of the .nz ccTLD.http://www.nznews.org.nz/categories/internetnz/2005/10/20.html#a610 .govt.nz vs parliament.nz- October 13, 2005 I agree that Parliament 'legally' is separate (and equal) to 'government' but I think 99% of the population does not really realise this and in fact care. I have not yet seen all the material that NZOC was presented about the parliament.nz application and perhaps this was addressed.Many things are simplified for ease of the many at the expense of the few and I thinkt his should have been one of them. I think we have now reached the 'tipping point' for 2LD applications in NZ. Anyone for...http://www.nznews.org.nz/categories/internetnz/2005/10/14.html#a609 NZOC recommends parliament.nz be approved- October 13, 2005 I fired off some emails about the NZOC meeting and in the end got one back from Frank March, NZOC Chair (I guess I should have emailed him first :-)In response to my 'what occurred for parliament.nz' request Frank sent a detailed update which I have placed online but the lead sentence is the key one: NZOC agreed to recommmend to Council at its next meeting on 28 October that .parliament.nz be established as a moderated second level domain. I understand several trees were used to outline the...http://www.nznews.org.nz/categories/internetnz/2005/10/14.html#a608 Twomey quoted in The Guardian- October 12, 2005 The Guardian has a story on titled EU says internet could fall apart. Thanks to Bret Faustt I was alerted to a quote from Paul Twomey, ICANN CEO. It is:"We expect to evolve, we expect to keep changing. We are concerned about stability of the internet and we think it's best to evolve existing institutions. Our present corporate structure is a matter of history, not of any particular design."Bret outlines some of the recent changes to ICANN in his post but I would like to point out that...http://www.nznews.org.nz/categories/internetnz/2005/10/13.html#a607 parliament.nz- October 12, 2005 On Monday the NZOC had a meeting and one of the items on the agenda was the parliament.nz 2LD application. I heard that this meeting had a member that came as an observer. I would have liked to go but had prior commitments. I am tracking down who this person is and see if I can find out what occurred at the meeting. Reading from the minutes from the previous meetings I expect that parliament.nz was approved (or at least not rejected).http://www.nznews.org.nz/categories/internetnz/2005/10/13.html#a606 |