[ncdnhc-discuss] why not pops.int? Because IANA says no to UNEP Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants!

[Manon Ress]

The story is quite bizarre and might end soon:

112 (as of January 2002) countries have signed the Stockholm Convention
on Persisitent Organic Pollutants.  The secretariat is provided by
UNEP.  The Secretariat wants to use www.pops.int to develop plans and
implement the convention.  A number of other international treaties have
secretariats provided by the UN with the same status as this Convention
and have been granted a .int (see pic.int, basel.int, unfcc.int.)  David
Ogden (UNEP Chemicals) has to deal with a delay in printing (they want
to have the correct web address on the thousands of booklets that
include the treaty text in the 6 U.N. languages)and has been writing to
many ICANN people to get the case solved. 

Michelle Cotton (int.Domain Registry) asked for proof that the
convention was signed by 2 or more nations and other documentations. 
She decided that the Stockholm Convention on Persisitent Organic
Pollutants did not meet .int criteria.  She even suggested that they ask
for a UN second level domain such as pops.un.int.  

I have found interesting emails exchanged between ICANN and a United
Nations Environment Programme Convention dated from the fall of 2001 to
April 2002. On the ICANN reconsideration page, it looks as if pops.int
is next and could be dealt with a "board Action" soon.
See: http://www.icann.org/committees/reconsideration/

PS
The funny thing is that it's easy to find ymca.int on the Web (hum, how
many countries signed the "YMCA treaty?) 

PS2
Anyone on the list knows what happened to WHO request for a .health?
-- 
Manon Anne Ress
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