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

["William S. Lovell" <wsl@cerebalaw.com>]

You learn the strangest things when you click on my little links
way down at the bottom. Such as, from the ICANN glossary:

"ICANN is a global non-profit corporation formed to oversee
a select range of Internet technical management functions
currently managed by the U.S. Government, or by its
contractors and volunteers.  Between now and September
2000.  ICANN is gradually taking over responsibility for
coordinating the assignment of protocol parameters, the
management of the domain name and root server systems,
and the allocation of IP address space."

Of course, the "taking over" still applies, but the "select range
of Internet technical management functions" has been blown
all to hell.  To straighten all that out and get back on course
is why the GA is here, and it shall happen.

How?  To quote my son James, "One can change the minds of
three beggars before one can even impress the King."  All us
beggars just get together and do it -- we have superiority of
numbers, among whom are some who also have connections.

Bill Lovell


"William X. Walsh" wrote:

> 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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> > Any terms or acronyms above that are not familiar
> > to the reader may possibly be explained at:
> > "WHAT IS": http://whatis.techtarget.com/
> > GLOSSARY: http://www.icann.org/general/glossary.htm
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> William X Walsh <william@userfriendly.com>
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