From: owner-wg-c-digest@dnso.org (WG-C-DIGEST) To: wg-c-digest@dnso.org Subject: WG-C-DIGEST V1 #107 Reply-To: Sender: owner-wg-c-digest@dnso.org Errors-To: owner-wg-c-digest@dnso.org Precedence: bulk WG-C-DIGEST Monday, November 20 2000 Volume 01 : Number 107 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 22:04:19 -0800 From: "William X. Walsh" Subject: Re[2]: [wg-c] new TLDs Hello Roeland, Friday, November 17, 2000, 9:22:46 PM, you wrote: > Not at all. WRT WEB, the BoD is excersizing duck-and-cover. Of three > possible scenarios, that is the one that hurts them the least. They deferred > it to the new BoD. Don't read so much into it. It was only because no board member objected to .info and 2 objected to .web that Afilias didn't get .web instead. It wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for Cerf. The rest of the board had voted 6-2 to approve .web for Afilias. Only because it was 8-0 for .info did that one advance instead. There is no duck and cover, except by Vint Cerf. - -- Best regards, William mailto:william@userfriendly.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 17:10:31 +0100 From: "JOKER-TEAM" Subject: Re: [wg-c] new TLDs while I agree wit you Jonathan, I would like to add that it seems to me that some of the boardmembers did not read the material (or part of them) thus having no clue what was going on. but at the end I am happy that we got some (tld) and hope the process will continue. siegfried On 17 Nov 00, at 13:46, Jonathan Weinberg wrote: > On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, James Love wrote: > > I have recieved some private mail, asking if we were happy with the > > ICANN results, and the answer is no. Like many others, were were > > disappointed with many of the rejections and many of the comments from > > various board members. That said, I think that Jonathan and others who > > moved the process forward deserve thanks, and I hope this leads to a > > further expansion of the root. I thought it was interesting how close > > the numbers came to the 6 to 10 from the WG-C report. We'd like to see > > thousands added, and I imagine these will lead to a much greater number > > down the road. I hope so. I feel badly for those who paid the $50k and > > were rejected on very arbitrary grounds. > > I agree, FWIW, that there was a whole lot wrong with the selection > process, which was ad hoc and arbitrary; to pick just one example, I think > the way that the Sarnoff application (I've got no connection with it) was > first accepted and then torpedoed was completely egregious. (I'm > confident, Rod, that we won't see any written explanations of the Board's > decisions.) But there were a lot of days while the process was unfolding > when I was unsure whether we'd see any new TLDs at all. I'm glad we've > made it this far, and hopeful that the Board members (although not staff) > seem genuinely interested in further approvals. > > Jon > > > Jonathan Weinberg > weinberg@msen.com > > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 01:09:48 +0900 From: "Robert F. Connelly" Subject: [wg-c] How's this for spamming by a RegistraR? Dear Colleagues: What do we do about this kind of spamming by a registraR? Are they ICANN Accredited? BobC X-FC-Forwarded-From: domainregistrar@mail.com ******************************************************************* You are receiving this message because you are listed as either the Administrative or Technical Contact for a .COM, .NET or .ORG domain name. 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