The new proposals duck most of the issues by calling for the setting up, by
1 October, of a 15-member nonprofit-making group which will decide what to do
next. Observers wonder why it took so long to make this anodyne proposal. The
Internet Council of Registrars (http://www.corenic.org/) was one of the most
vociferous critics of the original draft plan. The ICR is worried about how long
it will take to set up the nonprofit-making committee, which is understandable
given that, since last year, ICR has been signing up companies to run
alternative domains with suffixes like .firm, .shop, .web, .arts, .rec, and
.info. For more radical alternatives to the existing domain system see the
websites of PGMedia (http://namespace.pgmedia.net/), Enhanced Domain Name
Services (http://www.edns.net/) and the Alternative Network Information Centre
(http://www.alternic.net/).
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