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Prior to globalization of the Internet, its assignment of domain names was administered within the research and academic communities, through the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). As the Internet grew to a global service, in the 1990s, there was increasing pressure to add more "generic" top-level domain names, beyond the initial set, such as .com and .org and the two-letter country codes. Extensive debate within the Internet operational community did not resolve this. Finally, a composite group was formed, to create a proposal for the enhancement. The International Ad Hoc Committee (IAHC) was composed of members named by a variety of Internet and International sponsoring organizations.

The IAHC had a limited charter: "The IAHC is an international multi-organization effort for specifying and implementing policies and procedures relating to iTLD." ('international' TLDs are now called 'generic' TLDs, or gTLDs.)

Sponsoring Organizations

Internet Society (ISOC)
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)
Internet Architecture Board (IAB)
Federal Networking Council (FNC)
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
International Trademark Association (INTA)
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

Results

The IAHC produced a draft proposal with a number of administrative recommendations, beyond the set of candidate gTLD names. These included:

Use of the term generic topic-level domain (gTLD), rather than "international" TLD
A registrary/registrar model, as currently employed under ICANN
A dispute resolution policy, similar to what is currently employed under ICANN
Prior notification of name assignments, in case of trademark concerns

The group's work culminated in a "Memorandum of Understanding". It describes a procedure of allocation and administration of domain names, specifically top-level domains. The "Generic Top Level Domain Memorandum of Understanding" (gTLD-MoU) was open to signature by any organization, with approximately 226 groups doing so.

The organization was dissolved on 1 May 1997. Its effort was subsumed under the authority of ICANN.

Proposed TLDs

The IAHC proposed seven new top-level domains:

`.arts`	culture and entertainment
`.firm`	businesses
`.info`	information services
`.nom`	personal nomenclature
`.rec`	recreation and entertainment
`.store`	businesses selling goods
`.web`	World Wide Web related

The gTLD-MoU interim Policy Oversight Committee replaced .store with .shop.

The IAHC and gTLD-MOU effort did not produce implementation of these names. (The .info that now exists came from a later proposal under ICANN.)

External links

Generic Top Level Domain Memorandum of Understanding (archive.org cache)

IAHC Charter (archive.org cache)

Draft IAHC Proposal (archive.org cache)

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+Prior to globalization of the Internet, its assignment of domain names was administered within the research and academic communities, through the [[Internet Assigned Numbers Authority]] ('''IANA''').  As the Internet grew to a global service, in the 1990s, there was increasing pressure to add more "generic" top-level domain names, beyond the initial set, such as .com and .org and the two-letter country codes.  Extensive debate within the Internet operational community did not resolve this.  Finally, a composite group was formed, to create a proposal for the enhancement.  The '''International Ad Hoc Committee''' ('''IAHC''') was composed of members named by a variety of Internet and International sponsoring organizations.
-The '''IAHC''' ('''International Ad Hoc Committee''') was one of the first organizations to concern itself with the allocation of [[Internet]] [[domain names]].
+The IAHC had a limited charter: "The IAHC is an international multi-organization effort for specifying and implementing policies and procedures relating to iTLD." ('international' TLDs are now called 'generic' TLDs, or gTLDs.)
-== Member organizations ==
+== Sponsoring Organizations ==
 *[[Internet Society]] (ISOC)
 *[[Internet Assigned Numbers Authority]] (IANA)
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 == Results ==
+The IAHC produced a draft proposal with a number of administrative recommendations, beyond the set of candidate gTLD names.  These included:
-The group's work culminated in a "Memorandum of Understanding". It describes a procedure of allocation and administration of domain names, specifically [[top-level domains]]. The "Generic Top Level Domain Memorandum of Understanding" ('''gTLD-MoU''') can be signed by any organization, and has been by around 226 groups so far.
+* Use of the term generic topic-level domain (gTLD), rather than "international" TLD
-The organization was dissolved on 1 May 1997. It has been replaced by other groups such as [[ICANN]].
+* A registrary/registrar model, as currently employed under [[ICANN]]
+* A dispute resolution policy, similar to what is currently employed under [[ICANN]]
+* Prior notification of name assignments, in case of trademark concerns
+The group's work culminated in a "Memorandum of Understanding". It describes a procedure of allocation and administration of domain names, specifically [[top-level domains]]. The "Generic Top Level Domain Memorandum of Understanding" ('''gTLD-MoU''') was open to signature by any organization, with approximately 226 groups doing so.
+The organization was dissolved on 1 May 1997. Its effort was subsumed under the authority of [[ICANN]].
 == Proposed TLDs ==
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 The gTLD-MoU interim Policy Oversight Committee replaced <code>.store</code> with <code>.shop</code>.
-Nothing became of any of these proposals. (The <code>[[.info]]</code> that now exists came from a later proposal under ICANN.)
+The IAHC and gTLD-MOU effort did not produce implementation of these names. (The <code>[[.info]]</code> that now exists came from a later proposal under ICANN.)
 == External links ==
 *[http://web.archive.org/web/19971211190034/http://www.gtld-mou.org/ Generic Top Level Domain Memorandum of Understanding] (archive.org cache)
+*[http://web.archive.org/web/19980415072030/http://www.gtld-mou.org/docs/iahc-charter.html IAHC Charter] (archive.org cache)
+*[http://web.archive.org/web/19980415071855/http://www.gtld-mou.org/draft-iahc-gTLDspec-00.html Draft IAHC Proposal] (archive.org cache)
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