Green Paper

The Green Paper entitles A Proposal to Improve the Technical Management of Internet Names and Addresses was released by the National Telecommunications Information Administration (NTIA) in the Federal Register on February 20, 1998. The Green Paper contains proposals based on the comments and suggestions provided by the global internet community on the Request For Comments (RFC) issued by the United States Department Of Commerce on July 1, 1997 regarding the overall framework of the DNS Administration, creation of new top level domains (TLD), policies for domain name registrars as well as trademark issues.