Re: [ga-roots] Briefing Paper

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 07:46 PM 5/9/01 -0400, babybows.com wrote:

Start here:
http://www.dns-root.org/print.php?sid=4
Entitled "Routing Around A Single Point Of Failure"

Also take a look at this from 1996 (it predicts the rise of alt.roots as 
the consequence of the stupid behaviour by the past processes - now I get 
to say "told you so"):
http://www.iahc.org/contrib/draft-iahc-higgs-tld-app-00.txt
[Specifically read the "Why The Concern?" paragraph]

>The Names Council met in teleconference this morning and began discussion on
>"roots".  Some NC members expressed the sentiment that they were not yet
>sufficiently educated on the topic at hand, and desired to be better
>informed on technical issues prior to attempting to formulate "terms of
>reference" for use by a working group.   This discussion led to a
>recommendation that the NC form an interim committee tasked with preparing a
>"briefing" for review prior to Stockholm.  Committee members were selected:
>Milton Mueller, Grant Forsythe, Tony Harris, and Peter deBlanc.
>
>As this mailing list counts among its participants a number of experts on
>the topic, I would appreciate it if together you could volunteer to draft a
>"briefing paper" for the benefit of the NC, and for the education of future
>participants to the working group that may soon be convened.

--
This message was passed to you via the ga-roots@dnso.org list.
Send mail to majordomo@dnso.org to unsubscribe
("unsubscribe ga-roots" in the body of the message).
Archives at http://www.dnso.org/archives.html