Re: Re[3]: [ga] FW: UPDATE: ICANN-Yokohama Remote Participation Details

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 12:31:53AM -0700, Simon Higgs wrote:
> At 05:18 PM 7/9/00 -0700, Christopher Ambler wrote:
> 
> > > from http://www.gtld-mou.org/gtld-discuss/mail-archive/00990.html
> > >
> > >         While there is much discussion of a process for establishing
> > >         new registries and new top level domains taking place, no
> > >         conclusions have been reached as yet.
> > >
> > >         Request sent to the IANA for a new top level domain will be
> > >         filed with the many other requests.  There is some considerable
> > >         possibility that this particular request will not be granted
> > >         (in simple words -- don't plan on it).
> >
> >Spot on. There is some considerably possibility that this particular request
> >will not be granted. As such, Jon acknowledged that there were, in
> >fact, requests (and that they were solicited).
> >
> >To date, none of them have been approved nor rejected. They are, in
> >a word, STILL PENDING.
> >
> >Thank you for pointing this out, you've actually been helpful.
> 
> QED.
> 
> And my original point is that there is a legally binding contractual 
> obligation, via the "USC/ICANN Transition Agreement" and "Contract Between 
> ICANN and the United States Government for Performance of the IANA 
> Function", for ICANN to receive and evaluate these requests.

My guess as to ICANN's evaluation: 

Those requests are a meaningless hodgepodge that were made with an
explicit admonition that they should not be planned on.  The "don't plan
on it" clause is in fact a straightforward denial of any "pioneer
preference", and in fact, the straightforward interpretation of that
clause is "there is no point in making an application now", and many
people read it that way when it was publicized. 

The fact that some fools actually DID make plans based on those
requests, dispite the clear COMMAND not to, is not our problem, and it
should not prejudice applications from organizations that read the
clause with its obvious interpretation. 

-- 
Kent Crispin                               "Do good, and you'll be
kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain
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