Re: [NA-Discuss] Proposal for North American Indigenous TL

Hi, nice to see this idea coming back.

A bit of history:

I'm not sure when Dr Mohawk was kicking around the idea of the indigenous TLD, the page doesn't say.

http://wampum.wabanaki.net/vault/2008/04/004460.html

In 1994, I worked with the Oneida Nation of NY and I believe they were the first Indian Nation with a domain and a home page (they came up before the White House did...).

I worked for an ISP at the time and knew Jon Postel and brought the idea of a TLD for indigenous sovereign nations to him at that time. He did kick around the idea of a .IND (for indigenous peoples all over the world) and also .NAT for native peoples. It is true that because this was not provided for in 3166 it did not go forward.
See http://www.isoc.org/postel/condolences.shtml#Jean%20Armour%20Polly,%20%20former%20ISOC%20Board%20member and

http://www.cs.org/publications/csq/csq-article.cfm?id=1458&highlight=polly for the new url for the article referenced there-- history of the Oneida home page and the TLD effort.