[wg-c] reposted for Tony Rutkowski

[Jonathan Weinberg <weinberg@mail.msen.com>]

>Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 11:53:22 -0500
>To: bwg-n-friends@jetty.net, Karl Auerbach <karl@cavebear.com>
>From: "A.M. Rutkowski" <amr@chaos.com>
>Subject: Re: [bwg+] IAB comment
>Cc: wg-c@dnso.org
>
>Hi Milton,
>
>>My conclusion: if the IAB wants to participate in a policy debate on 
>>competing roots, it is welcome to do so, but I would encourage it to do so 
>>in a professional and comprehensive manner. If it wants to restrict itself 
>>to purely technical analysis of the consequences of various actions, 
>>that's fine too but it should be careful to refrain from normative 
>>judgements and to be more careful to delineate where "technical comment" 
>>ends and law, regulation and policy decisions begin.
>
>It would also be useful to foster a more open process.
>
>The only information available is the following:
>
>1. MINUTES FOR SEPTEMBER 14, 1999 IAB TELECONFERENCE
>    ...
>    NEW ACTION ITEMS: * Brian Carpenter: Statement on
>    need for unique DNS root to ICANN.
>
>2. MINUTES FOR OCTOBER 19, 1999 IAB TELECONFERENCE
>    ...
>    OLD ACTION ITEMS:
>    * Brian Carpenter: Statement on need for unique
>    DNS root to ICANN. = Done.
>
>In an ideal world, it would be desirable to see some
>record of a collective thought process.
>
>Minimally, it would be useful to see some record
>that the statement was actually adopted by the IAB, and
>whether the views expressed in the statement represent
>those of all the IAB members - all speaking in one voice
>without divergence:
>
>Harald Alvestrand
>Ran Atkinson
>Rob Austein
>Brian Carpenter
>Steve Bellovin
>Jon Crowcroft
>Steve Deering
>Ned Freed
>Tony Hain
>Tim Howes
>Geoff Huston
>John Klensin
>
>EX OFFICIO
>Fred Baker
>Keith Moore
>Joyce K. Reynolds
>Abel Weinrib
>Erik Huizer
>
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