Re[2]: [ga-roots] Re: ICANN Policy -- revised version

["William X. Walsh" <william@userfriendly.com>]

Hello Milton,

Friday, June 15, 2001, 2:59:31 PM, Milton Mueller wrote:


> Clearly you are completely unfamiliar with the history of the
> US Commerce Dept process that produced the White Paper.
> The original request for comments asked for suggestions of
> guiding principles. "Stability" was a principle that emerged over-
> whelmingly from the comments of the public. The Commerce
> Dept simply recognized this as a consensus point. It also was
> ratified by the International Forum on the White Paper.

> In short, there is a well-documented consensus process that
> produced an adherence to "stability" as a guiding principle for
> ICANN. It is not "derived from the documents." The documents
> were derived from the bottom up process.

Stability does not mean accommodating self styled TLD operators who
operate in private namespace outside the ICANN process.

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