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

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

I have a motion.

Let's change this list name to:
ga-people-who-have-pipe-dreams@dnso.org

Can we focus on realistic issues and proposals that we can actually
accomplish to bring about changes, please?


Monday, June 18, 2001, 7:44:51 PM, William S. Lovell wrote:



> Milton Mueller wrote:

>>
>> If entrepreneurs and other organizations acting independently can
>> establish recongizable claims to operate TLDs that might go into
>> the ICANN root, then ICANN is required to act only as a technical
>> coordinator; i.e., to ensure a consistent root zone.
>> ICANN wants to have all the power: it wants to announce when new TLDs
>> will be created, what names they will use, what policies they will enforce,
>> and who will get them.

> And yet ANOTHER reason why ICANN must be pulled out of business and
> politics and shoved back into its purely technical role.

> Bill Lovell

>>
>>
>> >>> Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org> 06/18/01 06:37PM >>>
>> So let's look.  What precisely are your criteria for a TLD which
>> should belong to the zoo of "valid" TLDs, as opposed to
>> misconfigured intranets?  What precisely is your criterion for a TLD
>> which can be taken seriously?  Just that this TLD made it into some
>> alt.root's root zone?
>>
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