Re: [IFWP] ICANN and IANA -- smoke and mirrors from NIST

1999-02-13 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
In message v0401178ab2ea72949f7d@[192.168.0.1], Gordon Cook writes: Moreover the computer facility relevant to function itself is cheap to replicate. Started out as a note book after all. el

Re: [IFWP] RE: Trademarks vs DNS

1999-02-13 Thread Ellen Rony
Roberto Gaetano wrote: A trademark is not only a string of ASCII characters, it is (potentially) a logo that is immediately recognizable even for people that do not read. Yes, and I wish we could get past the continual comparisons of trademarks and domain names. A trademark is geographically

[IFWP] Re: Who in ISOC supports the DNSO.ORG Draft? (was Re: Whos is on that draft)

1999-02-13 Thread Einar Stefferud
I believe that everyone on the AIP/ORSC side of the Paris Draft Adoption conclusion stands for the change that Bret proposed and cited below. Is it still on the boards for inclusion? When is the drafting attempt going to be mde to come up with a meld of the two applications? This change

Re: [IFWP] Market Structure Failure

1999-02-13 Thread Einar Stefferud
Said TM "experts" discount all TLDs as distinguishing one SLD name from another, so they want to reduce the number of TLDs to only one. And of course as soon as they achieve this, they will have shifted the entire problem down one level to the 3LD level, because with only one TLD, all SLD names

[IFWP] Re: Amendments to Paris Draft

1999-02-13 Thread Einar Stefferud
I think this is a fine idea, and in addition please add some other things that have been proposed. Like, make sure that Fair Hearing Panels can be initiated by petition to the Names Council (or maybe also to the General Assembly) after due consideration given to the petition. This need not

[IFWP] Re: Can we make one list for the dnso discussion?

1999-02-13 Thread Einar Stefferud
Well, I have several times proposed using [EMAIL PROTECTED] for this singular purpose, since it has been rescued, and even suggested adoption of the ORSC civil discourse rules, with a new panel of referees to handle complaints. I even nominated the referees, but I forget who they were. I recall

[IFWP] BOUNCE domain-policy@open-rsc.org: Non-member submission from [Greg Werstiuk greg_werstiuk@email.msn.com]

1999-02-13 Thread Richard J. Sexton
Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 22:23:13 -0800 (PST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: BOUNCE [EMAIL PROTECTED]:Non-member submission from ["Greg Werstiuk" [EMAIL PROTECTED]] From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Feb 12 22:23:12 1999 Received: from

Re: [IFWP] RE: Trademarks vs DNS

1999-02-13 Thread jeff Williams
Ellen and all, We couldn't agree with you more here Ellen. It seems that there are some "Interested Parties" that feel or believe that TM's and DN's have some sort of relationship that is special with regard to Domain Names. These folks that argue this point usually have very little in depth

[IFWP] When the NC must act - a target to shoot at

1999-02-13 Thread Antony Van Couvering
Hi, Clearly one of the faultlines in the two DNSO applications is the power of the Names Council -- or lack of it -- to act independently. Christiaan van der Valk of the ICC mentioned to us several times at the Paris meeting that there were times when something needed to get done, and that the

Re: [IFWP] Re: [dnso.discuss] Re: do we want to have constituency meetings

1999-02-13 Thread Michael Sondow
William X. Walsh a écrit: On 13-Feb-99 Michael Sondow wrote: I strongly second this recommendation, Joop, and will militate for it in Singapore. Might I suggest that your militant stance is one of the biggest threats to the standards you are advocating. Might I suggest that you

Re: [IFWP] BOUNCE list@ifwp.org: Non-member submission from[Kevin J. Connolly CONNOLLK@rspab.com]

1999-02-13 Thread Bill Lovell
At 10:39 AM 2/12/99 -0500, you wrote: Clare, for resolution of these interests, both substantive and procedural. Some kind of world wide consistency of approach on these issues seems eminently desirable. The substantive issues need to be agreed, the most likely routes Although "world wide

Re: [IFWP] Re: [dnso.discuss] Re: do we want to have constituenc

1999-02-13 Thread William X. Walsh
On 13-Feb-99 Michael Sondow wrote: William X. Walsh a écrit: On 13-Feb-99 Michael Sondow wrote: I strongly second this recommendation, Joop, and will militate for it in Singapore. Might I suggest that your militant stance is one of the biggest threats to the standards you

[IFWP] Re: RFC 1591 and ccTLD's (was Draft new draft)

1999-02-13 Thread Einar Stefferud
This is now all the more pressing as we see what ICANN has in mind for Registration, Certification, and Regulation of the entire Registrar and Registry Industry, World Wide! Yes, I know, ICANN has not exactly made it known that this is really what they have in mind, but they also have not

[IFWP] RE: Trademarks vs DNS

1999-02-13 Thread Roeland M.J. Meyer
At 07:23 PM 2/12/99 -0800, Bill Lovell wrote: At 07:10 PM 2/12/99 -0500, you wrote: Let's rename this thread trademarks/DNS instead of trademarks vs. DNS. The point of the thread (and btw hats off to Mr. Meyers for trying to get the class to behave) is hopefully to have discussions which could

Re: [IFWP] RE: Trademarks vs DNS

1999-02-13 Thread Roeland M.J. Meyer
At 09:34 PM 2/12/99 -0800, Ellen Rony wrote: Roberto Gaetano wrote: A trademark is not only a string of ASCII characters, it is (potentially) a logo that is immediately recognizable even for people that do not read. Yes, and I wish we could get past the continual comparisons of trademarks and

[IFWP] Re: When the NC must act - a target to shoot at

1999-02-13 Thread jeff Williams
Antony and all, We would be opposed to this "Expedited Recommendations" provision in that it represents and provides, under no specific provision, as Antony has suggested it here (See Below), an effective veto power for the NC without the approval of the membership and does so without a

Re: [dnso.discuss] Re: [IFWP] Re: do we want to have constituenc

1999-02-13 Thread jeff Williams
William and all, William, I wouldn't be a bit suprised if you were dazzeled if you were able to find your rump with both hands. Others milage may very William X. Walsh wrote: On 13-Feb-99 Michael Sondow wrote: William X. Walsh a écrit: On 13-Feb-99 Michael Sondow wrote: I

Re: [IFWP] Market Structure Failure

1999-02-13 Thread Gordon Cook
Stef wrote: Said TM "experts" discount all TLDs as distinguishing one SLD name from another, so they want to reduce the number of TLDs to only one. And of course as soon as they achieve this, they will have shifted the entire problem down one level to the 3LD level, because with only one TLD,

[IFWP] ICANN is Broke and Vint Cerf passes the tin cup on its behalf

1999-02-13 Thread Gordon Cook
How sad that Vint Cerf as co creator of the most important protocol of the 20th century is now prepared to use ISOC as the means of installing an authoritarian unaccountable regulatory regime over the very internet which he and Jon Postel played such an extraordinarily important role in creating.

Re: [IFWP] Re: ICANN's Defective Competition Guidelines, etc (was Accreditation guidelines, etc.) (fwd)

1999-02-13 Thread Greg Skinner
I forwarded the recent exchange between Mike Roberts and Michael Sondow to some friends and acquaintances, some of whom are long-time Internet professionals and others who are not. This is a response from a non-Internet professional who's been using the Internet for a relatively short time.

[IFWP] Timely decisions

1999-02-13 Thread Kent Crispin
On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 01:01:15PM -0500, Bret Fausett wrote: There has been much discussion about the need to give the DNSO Names Council some executive powers to deal with "emergency" or "pressing" DNS issues that may arise from time to time. "Emergency" is not a good term for it. The

Re: [IFWP] RE: Trademarks vs DNS

1999-02-13 Thread Bill Lovell
At 01:35 AM 2/13/99 -0800, you wrote: Martin makes a really good case for enforcing TLD charters. NSI has allowed them to erode simply because the TLD space has been frozen. Do you think enforced TLD charters would help in reducing this trademark pressure? Not being perfectly certain of the

Re: [IFWP] Timely decisions

1999-02-13 Thread Jay Fenello
At 2/13/99, 02:08 PM, Kent Crispin wrote: On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 01:01:15PM -0500, Bret Fausett wrote: There has been much discussion about the need to give the DNSO Names Council some executive powers to deal with "emergency" or "pressing" DNS issues that may arise from time to time.

Re: [IFWP] Timely decisions

1999-02-13 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Jay, he's trying to sneak in NC domination again, this time by a step by step approach of watering down. 7 on the Kent-Meter. In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jay Fenello writes: At 2/13/99, 02:08 PM, Kent Crispin wrote: On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 01:01:15PM -0500, Bret Fausett wrote: There has

Re: [IFWP] ICANN and IANA -- smoke and mirrors from NIST

1999-02-13 Thread Gordon Cook
how abouit sending me the email addresses of the isoc trustees so that I can send my vint cerf tin cup item directly to them? *** The COOK Report on Internet 431 Greenway Ave, Ewing, NJ 08618 USA (609) 882-2572 (phone

Re: [IFWP] Re: ICANN DNSO

1999-02-13 Thread Michael Dillon
On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Einar Stefferud wrote: }"IF YOUR PROBLEM SEEMS UNSOLVABLE, } CONSIDER THAT YOU MAY HAVE A META PROBLEM". The meta-problem is that some people are determined that we should have new privately-owned TLDs and other are determined that all new

RE: [dnso.discuss] Re: [IFWP] Timely decisions

1999-02-13 Thread William X. Walsh
On 13-Feb-99 Kent Crispin wrote: 1. There is a vast disparity between the levels of support For the WMB application (In the interests of avoiding possible Intellectual Property entanglements I shall use "WMB" from now on, instead of "BMW" :-)) we have the following submitters:

Re: [dnso.discuss] Re: [IFWP] Re: ICANN DNSO

1999-02-13 Thread jeff Williams
Michael and all, You are right here IMHO. But it seems reasonable to assume that both shared and non-shared gTLD's can coexist. If not, why not? I have yet to see an answer to that question that is logical to date. Michael Dillon wrote: On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Einar Stefferud wrote: }

Re: [dnso.discuss] Re: [IFWP] Timely decisions

1999-02-13 Thread jeff Williams
William and all, William is correct here and it should be noted. Kent's claim for the support that the WMB draft has is grossly overstated at best, same however goes for the Paris draft as well. For instance the INEGroup does NOT support either the WMB draft not the Paris draft in it's

[IFWP] drj response to Kent -- long

1999-02-13 Thread David R. Johnson
Since Kent invokes my comments during the conference call, I feel compelled to respond. The following are my own views only. They are premised on the assumption that we should be considering the merits of the drafts, not claiming levels of support from organizations that have various large

RE: [dnso.discuss] Re: [IFWP] Timely decisions

1999-02-13 Thread William X. Walsh
On 13-Feb-99 jeff Williams wrote: William and all, William is correct here and it should be noted. Kent's claim for the support that the WMB draft has is grossly overstated at best, same however goes for the Paris draft as well. For instance the INEGroup does NOT support either

[IFWP] Is Nesson right on the objective? And, how do we reach it?

1999-02-13 Thread Eric Weisberg
I apologize for this cross-post to the IFWP list, but thought I would use it as an opportunity to move anyone interested in the discussion to [EMAIL PROTECTED] where we should be assembling the nuts and bolts of the over-all membership structure. Charles Nesson wrote: we must defend against

RE: [dnso.discuss] Re: [IFWP] Timely decisions

1999-02-13 Thread William X. Walsh
It was also pointed out to me that if we are going to count "members/users" NSI's support of the Paris draft would add an additional 3 million supporters. Apparently some of the directors of EuroISP didn't even KNOW about the DNSO drafts, much less that there was more than one proposal. So it

RE: [IFWP] drj response to Kent -- long

1999-02-13 Thread Antony Van Couvering
David, Well done. I hope that you stick around to deal with the various spluttering vituperations that are bound to emerge... Antony -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David R. Johnson Sent: Saturday, February 13, 1999 5:27 PM To:

Re: [IFWP] Timely decisions

1999-02-13 Thread Jay Fenello
At 2/13/99, 04:32 PM, Kent Crispin wrote: On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 02:34:45PM -0500, Jay Fenello wrote: At 2/13/99, 02:08 PM, Kent Crispin wrote: On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 01:01:15PM -0500, Bret Fausett wrote: There has been much discussion about the need to give the DNSO Names Council some

Re: [IFWP] Is Nesson right on the objective? And, how do we reach it?

1999-02-13 Thread jeff Williams
Eric and all, IMHO no need to apologize however you can most likely expect a warning message from Molly regarding cross posting as that seems to be forbidden in the rules of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list rules. >;) With respect to your content comments, we have always agreed that any policy

Re: [IFWP] Is Nesson right on the objective? And, how do we reach it?

1999-02-13 Thread Bob Allisat
Eric Weisberg: I apologize for this cross-post to the IFWP list, but thought I would use it as an opportunity to move anyone interested in the discussion to [EMAIL PROTECTED] where we should be assembling the nuts and bolts of the over-all membership structure. Nuts, yes. Bolts: missing.

Re: [IFWP] drj response to Kent -- long

1999-02-13 Thread Kent Crispin
On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 06:00:23PM -0500, Antony Van Couvering wrote: David, Well done. I hope that you stick around to deal with the various spluttering vituperations that are bound to emerge... Indeed, it was a masterpiece. Unfortunately, inaccurate in important sections But did

Re: [dnso.discuss] Re: [IFWP] Timely decisions

1999-02-13 Thread Michael Sondow
Jay Fenello a écrit: 2) if no consensus was reached within that time frame, it could be forwarded to ICANN as such? If no consensus were reached, that would be the proof that it could not be forwarded as such.

[IFWP] Re: Timely Decisions

1999-02-13 Thread Michael Sondow
Kent Crispin a écrit: Here's another very concrete, time-bounded example: NSI's contract with the USG runs out in about two years. Some reasonable time before that ICANN may *very well* want policy determinations on a number of issues. This is precisely what must not be permitted to be

Re: [IFWP] Timely decisions

1999-02-13 Thread Michael Sondow
Kent Crispin a écrit: For the WMB application... we have the following submitters: ITAA -- 11000 members INTA -- 3200 members, 113 countries EuroISPA -- Largest ISP association in the world ICC -- 7000 members, 63 countries AILPA -- over 1 members ISOC -- 6000 members, 150 countries

Re: [IFWP] Is Nesson right on the objective? And, how do we reach it?

1999-02-13 Thread Jonathan Zittrain
Eric, At 05:36 PM 2/13/99 , Eric Weisberg wrote: I agree that "design against capture" should be a primary objective. Do we have consensus on that? Do we need to poll ourselves? Yes, though I've come to believe that people have different ideas about capture: a non-captured membership might

[IFWP] Too late, already captured.

1999-02-13 Thread Bob Allisat
Eric Weisberg wrote: I agree that "design against capture" should be a primary objective. Do we have consensus on that? Do we need to poll ourselves? Okay. How about this as the question: "Has the process already been captured and is all of this scrabbling about only aiding and abeding

Re: [IFWP] Timely decisions

1999-02-13 Thread Mikki Barry
For the WMB application (In the interests of avoiding possible Intellectual Property entanglements I shall use "WMB" from now on, instead of "BMW" :-)) we have the following submitters: ITAA -- 11000 members INTA -- 3200 members, 113 countries EuroISPA -- Largest ISP association in the world ICC

[IFWP] Re: do we want to have constituency meetings in singapore next month?

1999-02-13 Thread jeff Williams
Esther and all, Esther Dyson wrote: Maybe there should be a meeting *about* constituencies, as opposed to necessarily *of* constituencies. Why? It seems to us that the need for pre-defined constituencies is fairly much opposed. The polls that we and Joop ran showed this to be the case

Re: [IFWP] Timely decisions

1999-02-13 Thread Kent Crispin
On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 08:42:16PM -0500, Mikki Barry wrote: Sorry, but when an organization does not ASK its membership for its opinions on an issue it cannot claim to represent them. A vast generality that can't possibly be true. Your congressperson can legitimately claim to represent

Re: [IFWP] Timely decisions

1999-02-13 Thread Mikki Barry
On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 08:42:16PM -0500, Mikki Barry wrote: Sorry, but when an organization does not ASK its membership for its opinions on an issue it cannot claim to represent them. A vast generality that can't possibly be true. Your congressperson can legitimately claim to represent you,

Re: [IFWP] Timely decisions

1999-02-13 Thread Kent Crispin
On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 09:28:40PM -0500, Mikki Barry wrote: On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 08:42:16PM -0500, Mikki Barry wrote: Sorry, but when an organization does not ASK its membership for its opinions on an issue it cannot claim to represent them. A vast generality that can't possibly be

Re: [IFWP] drj response to Kent -- long

1999-02-13 Thread Kent Crispin
On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 05:27:15PM -0500, David R. Johnson wrote: Since Kent invokes my comments during the conference call, I feel compelled to respond. [...] David, thanks for putting together your voluminous document - indeed, I think it will be very useful in furthering the debate, and

Re: [IFWP] Timely decisions

1999-02-13 Thread Michael Sondow
Kent Crispin a écrit: For example, consider the American Cancer Society. It can reasonably claim to represent cancer patients who aren't even members. Then you agree that I can reasonably claim to represent other users in my situation (non-commercial use of the Internet), or at least all