Re: [ga] alternative roots

[Eric Dierker <eric@HI-TEK.COM>]

I hereby declare that it is in the community interest and public trust that the
heretofor existing dotBIZ must be disconnected from the WWW.

Signed;
Luis Touton in consensus with Verisign and the policy department of the
StaffSO.

ps. I finally figured out that something got mixed up in translation, they got
bottom mixed up with ass. Now it makes sense when the say bottoms-up and it
really goes from staff to the board. ;>}

Sincerely,

Bruce James wrote:

> I received this from another email list:
>
> This is the passage that got to me:
> >
> > "Because these alternative roots substitute insular motives for the
> > community-based processes that govern the management of the authoritative
> > root, their decisions to include particular top-level domains have not
> been
> > subjected to the same tests of community support and conformance with the
> > public trust. Indeed, their introduction has been done with little regard
> > for the public interest, since, if they were broadly used, they could
> impair
> > the uniqueness of the authoritative DNS's name resolution. "
>
> This authoritative root sounds like a great setup - using community-based
> processes, and applying "tests of community support and conformance with
> the public trust"... Now, where can we access this root instead of ICANN's
> being subject to ICANN's "insular motives" and disregard for the public
> interest? ;-)
>
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