John Charles and all,
You make a very good point. It seems to me from some recent calls
that I personally have made that none of those that are listed as
signatories of these "Paris and BMW" drafts are actually signatories
or in agreement with these drafts.
John Charles Broomfield wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> Ok, I've said this privately a few times and now I've had enough. I haven't
> read (yet) either the Paris draft or the BMW draft. However there is one
> thing that seems screwed about the process involved in the Paris draft
> (note: something screwed about the PROCESS).
> I've just been to http://dnso.association.org to see who endorses it, and I
> find under the list of endorsing registries "Guadeloupe" (strange that
> Martinique isn't there seeing that they are both managed by the same
> non-profit organisation...).
> Why is Guadeloupe there? I presume it stems because the admin contact for
> Guadeloupe a while back replied to a message with the words "I support
> RFC-1591".
> I actually doubt that the IATLD is more than a front for a bunch (5?) of
> unscrupulous people. I question very strongly (until I see evidence of it)
> their so called involvement and support from all those ccTLDs (73 of them
> according to them).
> Patrick Raimond (the admin contact for ".gp") speaks reasonably good
> English. I saw the message he had received and it was asking for support of
> RFC-1591 in the ICANN bylaws (or something along those lines, in any case it
> wasn't clear). He said that he had understood the question to be if he
> supported RFC-1591. Obviously he DOES support RFC-1591, as I expect just
> about everyone else who runs any registry. In any case, it was not at all
> clear that it was an endorsement on behalf of the GP & MQ NIC. In other
> words, it was a personal question.
> I would imagine that the fluency in English of many contacts for other
> registries is less than that of Patrick, so it would seem that the so called
> support is actually quite fraudulent. IATLD is a fake.
>
> I request: get GP off your lists and your webpage. (I have no idea whether
> we will support the Paris draft or not, but that support is premature to see
> the least).
>
> Yours, John Broomfield.
> GP & MQ NIC.
>
> > Hello everyone. After catching up on some sleep, I have now made sure that
> > the http://dnso.association.org/ web site is now up to date with the
> > complete draft of the Paris Draft Proposal, the cover letter and the
> > supporting letter from AIP, with the appendix of proposed edits that
> > couldn't make it in on time from AIP and NSI.
> >
> > The supporting organization list is up, as well, along with the contact
> > email for suggestions to the draft (which we are archiving) -
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED], and the official list for the Paris Draft -
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > If you are a supporting organization, or think you may want to be one,
> > please review the supporting organizations page to make sure we have your
> > information correctly. Please make sure we have the URL, and, if it says
> > "<Description Forthcoming>", we need your brief one-paragraph organizational
> > description. Please send these to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > I want to say thank you to everyone involved in this process, and I look
> > forward to moving forward in this open forum in bringing together the
> > various drafts that were submitted. It is my hope that we can come closer
> > and ideally merge multiple drafts out there before the Singapore meeting.
> >
> > And now, on that note, I'm going to go catch up on some sleep. Have a great
> > weekend, everyone!
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Andrew Kraft
> > --
> > Andrew Q. Kraft, MAIP
> > Executive Director, Association of Internet Professionals (AIP)
> > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Phone: 310-724-6589
> > More Info: http://www.association.org/
> >
>
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