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The '''IAHC''' ('''International Ad Hoc Committee''') was formed in 1996 by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ([[IANA]]) and Internet Society ([[ISOC]]). During this period, commercial restrictions on the web were lifted by the National Science Foundation ([[NSF]]), which resulted in the Internet's first major explosion of commercial growth and the number of computers on the Internet doubling every three months. IAHC was a temporary alliance brought together to focus on the issue of managing the [[DNS|Domain Name System]] so that it could serve the rising number of computers effectively. The committee was made up of several organizations: IANA, ISOC, the Internet Architecture Board ([[IAB]]), the International Telecommunications Union ([[ITU]]), Federal Networking Council ([[FNC]]), International Trademark Association ([[INTA]]), and the World Intellectual Property Organization ([[WIPO]]).<ref name="link1">[http://computer.howstuffworks.com/iahc1.htm howstuffworks.com]</ref> <ref>[http://curiosity.discovery.com/question/what-internet-international-committee curiosity.discovery]</ref> The IAHC was dissolved on May 1, 1997 in favor of the Generic Top Level Domain Memorandum of Understanding ([[gTLD-MoU]]). <ref>[http://www.cknow.com/cms/ckinfo/iahc---internet-international-ad-hoc-committee.html cknow.com]</ref>

The '''IAHC''' ('''International Ad Hoc Committee''') was formed in 1996 by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ([[IANA]]) and Internet Society ([[ISOC]]). During this period, commercial restrictions on the web were lifted by the National Science Foundation ([[NSF]]), which resulted in the Internet's first major explosion of commercial growth and the number of computers on the Internet doubling every three months. IAHC was a temporary alliance brought together to focus on the issue of managing the [[DNS|Domain Name System]] so that it could serve the rising number of computers effectively. The committee was made up of several organizations: IANA, ISOC, the Internet Architecture Board ([[IAB]]), the International Telecommunications Union ([[ITU]]), Federal Networking Council ([[FNC]]), International Trademark Association ([[INTA]]), and the World Intellectual Property Organization ([[WIPO]]).<ref name="link1">[http://computer.howstuffworks.com/iahc1.htm howstuffworks.com]</ref> <ref>[http://curiosity.discovery.com/question/what-internet-international-committee curiosity.discovery]</ref> The IAHC was dissolved on May 1, 1997 in favor of the Generic Top Level Domain Memorandum of Understanding ([[gTLD-MoU]]). <ref>[http://www.cknow.com/cms/ckinfo/iahc---internet-international-ad-hoc-committee.html cknow.com]</ref>

==The fall of IAHC==   

==The fall of IAHC==   

The IAHC managed to garner support, yet its report was criticized on several grounds. The technical community viewed the report as too condensed and strict, as it scheduled a 100-day timeline for the technological development and implementation of the new TLDs. Others thought that the report gave no importance to important business issues, and that it was failing to solve the problems that it was created to solve. One major point was that there was a lack of unity among the suggestions given by the IAHC; for instance, the introduction of the .store and .firm domains alongside the already established .com. Many of the IAHC's recommendations were later successful proposals, however; one such being [[.info]], which the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ([[ICANN]]) introduced later, after the dissolution of the committee in May 1997.

The IAHC managed to garner support, yet its report was criticized on several grounds. The technical community viewed the report as too condensed and strict, as it scheduled a 100-day timeline for the technological development and implementation of the new TLDs. Others thought that the report gave no importance to important business issues, and that it was failing to solve the problems that it was created to solve. One major point was that there was a lack of unity among the suggestions given by the IAHC; for instance, the introduction of the .store and .firm domains alongside the already established .com. Many of the IAHC's recommendations were later successful proposals, however; one such being [[.info]], which the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ([[ICANN]]) introduced later, after the dissolution of the committee<ref name="link2">[http://computer.howstuffworks.com/iahc2.htm howstuffworks.com]</ref> in May 1997.

==IAHC and ICANN==   

==IAHC and ICANN==   

== References ==

== References ==

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[[category: Glossary]]

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[[category: Committees]]

[[category: Committees]]

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