Sponsoring Organization’s Proposal

I SPONSORING ORGANIZATION’S STRUCTURE

C1 GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF STRUCTURE AND ORGANIZATION

Telnic submits a Sponsoring Organization Proposal and Application to operate and manage a new generic top-level domain called .TEL that is dedicated to communications-over-the-Internet.

The vision of .TEL, a fundamental new communications domain-addressing platform that will enrich the Internet, was conceived in the mid-90’s, as was its parent Telnic (the .Tel Network Information Center).

From these early beginnings Telnic has taken a long-term view on the development of the .TEL concept, primarily because: (a) technology and perception has had to catch-up with the idea, and most importantly (b) the need to adopt .TEL into the DNS as part of the then IANA, and now ICANN new gTLD initiatives.

Telnic was created to make .TEL happen. Therefore the process of structuring and building the Telnic Organisation has and will be ongoing and evolutionary. This is plainly because Telnic and .TEL are contingent in many respects on the sanctioning of new gTLDs, and the parameters and requirements that go with it.

As a result, Telnic is currently a limited operation focused and ready on the sole objective of making .TEL a reality. Most elements to achieve this aim are in place, including: an extremely high-level business plan; human-resources in place and in-waiting who are experienced and qualified in all necessary fields; and importantly sufficient financial resources and commitment ready to ensure that the new Telnic Registry will be unequalled to fulfil the requisite responsibilities to launch the project, and execute the proposal described in this application.

Telnic is therefore in the category of “Sponsoring Organization Proposing to be Formed”. Details of Telnic’s current staffing level and resources, including funding, are given in the appropriate sections of this proposal.

We are presently a UK centric organization, with plans on becoming acknowledged and accepted as a universal organization and registry for .TEL, servicing the whole Internet community - be it in developed countries or developing countries.

As part of our long-term planning and development Telnic has considered the many and varied pivotal issues that will have a bearing on the long-term development and stability of a new namespace for .TEL. We have considered and planned for all legal aspects, all technical aspects, all policy formulation aspects, and importantly all intellectual property aspects that could restrict or hinder the implementation of the .TEL namespace. In this respect Telnic has comprehensively protected the integrity of .TEL.

C1.1 The Basic Principle of the Telnic .TEL gTLD

Telnic propose the creation of a new .TEL gTLD that will be task-related specific to Voice-Video-Data.

Like most good ideas, the .TEL concept is simple. We propose a .TEL top-level domain - that will eventually have relating subdomains - that will be universally recognised and used as a DNS addressing system for people to “dial” and communicate using any Internet enabled device with speech capability. Proof of working concept have been undertaken with .TEL, including a defining practical demonstration with Ericsson, using their broadband next-generation UMTS platform. Please refer to the confirmation of this in the letter from Ericsson contained in the Appendix

It will represent the next-generation of point-to-point addressing for voice-video-data. By voice-video-data we mean that as the world enters an all Internet Protocol (IP) environment when voice (voice-telephony) will become just another data element, it will then be possible to combine this voice data will other data such as video, imagery, and/or messaging to provide creative Internet solutions and services that go far beyond conventional communication services.

These new exciting developments are being driven by the Internet, and in particular the emerging mobile-Internet, and in parallel with these advances and convergences we are seeing the emergence of a whole new-generation of devices that will transform how we use and interface with the Internet. These devices, in their many forms - whether personal communicators, wearable-devices, PDA types devices, desk-top terminals – demand a new dedicated domain-name addressing system such as .TEL.

The use of .TEL as a communications addressing scheme opens up new frontiers in the use and application of communications devices and networks. It will positively compliment and grow DNS for virtually all Internet end-users, service providers, application developers, even hardware producers.

.TEL has the potential of fulfilling most national, regional, and global Internet addressing specific to communications – that is Internet communications in the broadest sense. It will be a simple, universal, flexible, scaleable, versatile, intuitive, and user-friendly addressing structure.

· It will enhance DNS and enable the development and deployment of a wide range of new Internet applications, products and services.

· .TEL will be user-friendly and allow the flexibility to use more or less any characters: letters, digits, phrases, or a mixture of letters and digits to form domain name addresses – or “Telnames”.

· .TEL will allow a sub-addressing structure of country based two-character sub-domain names, ccSLDs, (e.g., us.tel or uk.tel) which will mirror to an extent traditional telephone country and area codes for over 200 countries.

· .TEL will create corporate addressing solutions below each corporate .TEL domain name to enable individual company departments to be contacted via simple and flexible communication architecture.

· .TEL will extend the methodology of the corporate .TEL solution to domestic homes, whereby any member of a family and any Internet enabled appliance can be contacted through the specific .TEL address mapped to that home.

As can be seen from the above, .TEL has the power to become a truly worldwide and universal platform that provides an uncomplicated IP-based telephone addressing system between any two or more Internet enabled devices, or between two or more devices where at least one is Internet enabled.

This means that .TEL lends radical new capabilities to how people will “dial” and communicate in the future, and could accelerate VoIP, mobile-computing, UMTS, and many other Internet related advances.

C2 ORGANIZATION INFORMATION

The .TEL proposal is managed by Telnic, a private limited company registered in England and Wales under company registration number 03555437, operating out of the UK.

C2.1 Telnic Limited

· Telnic was incorporated under the name of Ixtel Limited, formed on 22 April 1998. The company changed its name to Telnic Limited in 1999.

· Telnic’s registered office address is at 211 Piccadilly, London W1V 9LD, England.

· Telnic’s bankers are National Westminster Bank plc of 169 Victoria Street, London SW1E 5BT, England.

· Telnic’s primary legal counsel is Squire, Sanders & Dempsey. Squire, Sanders & Dempsey is a global law firm, with 700 attorneys worldwide, with a leading telecoms and