Re: [wg-c] CPT/EI letter on TLDs

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

At 04:51 PM 3/5/00 -0700, katie@imt.net wrote:
>Welcome Jamie,
>i want to thank you for sharing your letter to Dyson with the wg-c.  
>i am certain your intent in the letter is perfectly sincere and of course 
>extremely correct.  However, due to my cynical opinion of icann, i found 
>your letter to Dyson to be wonderfully droll.
>please be sure to post her response, if any.
>
>katie.
>Kathryn Vestal, Esq.


	This is what Esther Dyson wrote to Dave Farber, after he disseminated
Jamie's letter under the subject heading "What is ICANN, really? (a test
coming up)":

>To: farber@cis.upenn.edu 
>From: edyson@edventure.com (Esther Dyson) 
> 
>There is no test for some time, because first we (ICANN as an extended 
>organization and then its board in ratifying consensus) have to figure out 
>whether and how there should be new gTLDs at all. So this first test is 
>simply whether we follow our own rules and move forward with creating a 
>general policy, or whether we could be swayed by political-correctness 
>arguments into doing something arbitrary. 
> 
>esther 

Jon