The IAHC produced a draft proposal with a number of administrative recommendations, beyond the set of candidate gTLD names. These included: • Use of the term generic topic-level domain (gTLD), rather than "international" TLD • A registrary/registrar model, as currently employed under
ICANN • A policy for resolution of trademark-related domain name disputes that became the basis for the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) that is currently part of
ICANN policies. • Notification of name assignments prior to issuance, in case of trademark concerns The group's work culminated in a "
Memorandum of Understanding". It describes a procedure of allocation and administration for domain names, specifically
top-level domains. The "Generic Top Level Domain Memorandum of Understanding" (
gTLD-MoU) was open to signature by any organization, with approximately 226 groups doing so. The organization was dissolved on 1 May 1997. Its effort was subsumed under the authority of
ICANN. When the U.S. government's activities concerning Internet Domain Name administration issued its preliminary "Green Paper" in 1998, the efforts of the IAHC were not referenced. However, the final "White Paper" gave credit to the IAHC efforts: "The IAHC issued a draft plan in December 1996 that introduced unique and thoughtful concepts for the evolution of DNS administration." The structure of ICANN, including the UDRP and the registrar/registry construct, was ultimately based on the substance of the proposals in the IAHC gTLD-MoU. == Proposed TLDs ==