Re: [ga-roots] Community Roots or Red Herrings

[Joop Teernstra <terastra@terabytz.co.nz>]

At 12:26 10/05/01 -0400, Kendall Dawson wrote:
>At 09:18 AM 5/10/2001 -0700, William X. Walsh wrote:
>>Hello Patrick,
>>
>>Thursday, May 10, 2001, 7:45:17 AM, Patrick Corliss wrote:
>> > You are still avoiding the issue.  What policy should ICANN adopt?
>>
>>And you are still avoiding the issue.
>>
>>Why is a policy necessary?
>
>ICANN needs to take a "proactive" stance on this matter instead of sticking 
>their heads in the sand. ICANN can pretend that there is no such thing as 
>alternative roots -- but, one day they will wake up and find out that more 
>people are using alternatives than the traditional a-root. MultiBind is 
>only the beginning. Companies like New Net will be popping up all over the 
>place (I saw a new one yesterday).
>
>ICANN needs to take steps to address this issue now -- because it's not 
>going to go away!
>

That is the right answer. 
*What* the policy should be is yet unclear, but there is no better place to
prepare it than the ICANN DNSO.
Somehow I don't think new.net will invite policy input (for its registry
contracts) from its registrants. 





--Joop Teernstra LL.M.--  
the Cyberspace Association and 
the constituency for Individual Domain Name Owners
Elected representative.
http://www.idno.org  

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