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.museum
Charter
The .museum TLD
will be established to serve the needs of the international museum
community. It will be managed in accordance with the provisions of this
charter ("Charter") and in the interests of that community.
1. The
Sponsor will be responsible for establishing registration requirements
for the .museum TLD, provided that registrations shall be granted only
to entities that are museums (as defined in item 2 below), professional
associations of museums, or individuals who are professional museum
workers (as defined in item 7 below).
2. For the
purposes of this Charter, the basic definition of a "museum" is provided
in Article 2, Paragraph 1 of the Statutes of the International Council
of Museums ("ICOM"), as quoted below. The Sponsor may extend this
definition to cover other entities that acquire, conserve, and
communicate or exhibit evidence of people or their environment, if
petitioned to do so by a recognized professional organization within the
museum community, provided that any such extension is in accordance with
community perceptions about the prevailing scope of the field of museum
activity.
3. The
Sponsor may clarify this definition as may be necessary for the
operation of the domain, subject to the limits on extension in item 2
above.
4. The
Sponsor may establish stricter requirements for registrants according to
the requirements for policy-development set forth in the Sponsorship
Agreement.
5. The
Sponsor will promptly convey to ICOM all statements of museum community
need that may result in the Sponsor amending the definition of "museum"
referred to in item 2 above, with the request that ICOM consider, in
accordance with its procedures, commensurate modification to its
definition of "museum" at the earliest date at which this may be
done.
6. The
Sponsor will promptly convey to ICANN any modifications that may be made
to the definition of "museum" provided in the ICOM Statutes.
7. For the
purposes of this Charter, the definition of "professional museum worker"
is provided in Article 2, Paragraph 2 of the ICOM Statutes, as quoted
below. A professional museum worker shall receive registrations of
Registered Names within .museum only (a) under one or more
role-descriptive second-level sub-domains within .museum (e.g.,
john.smith.curator.museum and jane.doe.conservator.museum) established
for this purpose or (b) under one or more sub-domains assigned to a
museum or museums with which the worker is
affiliated.
From Article 2
of the Statutes of the International Council of Museums:
The ICOM Statutes
were adopted by the 16th General Assembly of ICOM (The Hague, The
Netherlands, 5 September 1989), amended by the 18th General Assembly of
ICOM (Stavanger, Norway, 7 July 1995), and amended again by the 20th
General Assembly of ICOM (Barcelona, Spain, 6 July 2001).
Article 2 -
Definitions
1. A museum is a non-profit
making, permanent institution in the service of society and of its
development, and open to the public, which acquires, conserves,
researches, communicates and exhibits, for purposes of study, education
and enjoyment, material evidence of people and their
environment.
(a) The above definition of
a museum shall be applied without any limitation arising from the nature
of the governing body, the territorial character, the functional
structure or the orientation of the collections of the institution
concerned.
(b) In addition to
institutions designated as "museums" the following qualify as museums
for the purposes of this definition:
(i) natural,
archaeological and ethnographic monuments and sites and historical
monuments and sites of a museum nature that acquire, conserve and
communicate material evidence of people and their environment;
(ii) institutions holding
collections of and displaying live specimens of plants and animals,
such as botanical and zoological gardens, aquaria and vivaria;
(iii) science centres and
planetaria;
(iv) non profit art
exhibition galleries;
(v) nature
reserves;
(vi) international or
national or regional or local museum organizations, ministries or
departments or public agencies responsible for museums as per the
definition given under this article;
(vii) non-profit
institutions or organizations undertaking conservation, research,
education, training, documentation and other activities relating to
museums and museology;
(viii) cultural centres
and other entities that facilitate the preservation, continuation and
management of tangible or intangible heritage resources (living
heritage and digital creative activity); and
(ix) such other
institutions as the Executive Council, after seeking the advice of the
Advisory Committee, considers as having some or all of the
characteristics of a museum, or as supporting museums and professional
museum personnel through museological research, education or
training.
2. Professional museum
workers include all the personnel of museums or institutions qualifying
as museums in accordance with the definition in Article 2, para. 1,
having received specialized training, or possessing an equivalent
practical experience, in any field relevant to the management and
operations of a museum, and independent persons respecting the ICOM Code
of Professional Ethics and working for museums as defined above, either
in a professional or advisory capacity, but not promoting or dealing
with any commercial products and equipment required for museums and
services.
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