I don't think the business requirements [for competitive registration] were available when the protocol started to be designed, so some things, like the transfer of one domain from one registrar to another, were not nailed down properly before someone had to implement it.

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We want to work on internationalization in everything that we do. We have to look at all the date formats and e-mail headers. We need to update all the old reliable protocols including HTTP [for Web browsing], SMTP and IMAP [for e-mail].

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It's very important that people don't see it as a failure if we end up with three protocols instead of one. We had to develop gateways anyway because we have to interoperate between our protocol and the ones used by AOL and [its subsidiary] ICQ.

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