Yes, MDMA as a set of initials will probably cause some confusion,
especially as the Museum Domain Management Association also seems to use
the abbreviations MuseDoma and MUSEDOMA! See their site
http://www.musedoma.org/
Prof Bruce Royan, CEO, SCRAN (Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network)
http://www.scran.ac.uk/ tel (+44) 131 662 1211 fax(+44) 131 662 1511
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Ian Morrison wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Lee, Edmund wrote:
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> > List members may have already picked up from the press the announcement of
> > new internet domain names, including the new '.museum'. If not see the press
> > report at http://www.icann.org/announcements/icann-pr16nov00.htm . Does
> > anyone know anything about the organisation that put this idea forward, the
> > 'Museum Domain Management Association, (MDMA)'? Will this development mean a
> > whole lot of work to ensure that museums have the .museum version of thier
> > site registered, as well as the .org or .gov or .co versions? Looks like a
> > further opportunity for unscruplous bulk buying up of names and re-selling
> > them to hard-pressed museum web-site managers!
>
> As I understand it, Cary Karp* is the person behind the move, which was
> supported very strongly by ICOM, who are one of the partners in MDMA
> (unfortunate choice of initials perhaps?) - the other being the Getty.
> MDMA has been established precisely to stop the abuse to which you refer,
> and to ensure that only accredited bodies are able to use the .museum
> domain name. That begs a whole lot of other questions, of course, which
> Cary and MDMA would be delighted to hear opinions on, I am sure.
>
> * ICOM's web supremo and well known to many of us as a leading light in
> CIDOC
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> Ian O. Morrison, Scottish Museums Documentation Officer
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