Gordon -
As usual, there are some grains of truth here, of course: the trademark
interests have a lot of money.
And we (the Initial Board of ICANN) hope that various groups will come
together into a consensus DNSO proposal.
HOWEVER, you and I both know that there is no such thing as "a few ICANN
members." ICANN does not have members yet.
Now if this person (already showing him/herself to be unreliable with this
mistake) was actually referring to Initial Board members, then this still
cannot be true, because recognition of an SO is a Board decision, something
that cannot be promised by any individuals. What other people or groups may
or may not be planning or intending or why they do things I don't know, but
please rest assured that the Board has made no decisions, and that I
personally I am still simply watching with interest to see what comes out of
the discussions now proceeding.
Esther
At 02:36 AM 07/01/99 -0500, Gordon Cook wrote:
>hello mike and esther:
>
>What follows came to my attention tonight. I realize that until it is
>second and maybe even third sourced it is just a rumor.
>
>Is it?
>
>I am sure you would like to be able to come back and assure all of us that
>this "disturbing news" paragraph below is just totally false.
>
>can you do that?
>
>
>
>
>------- Forwarded Message
>
>From: anonymous
>Subject: Disturbing news
>
>I just finished speaking to someone who knows what's going on.
>Confidentially, he told me that the dnso.org group has taken the
>trademark people in for 2 reasons.
>
>First, they add legitimacy to the dnso.org application. They also
>have made claims that they have big companies and a lot of money
>behind them, and they've already spoken with a few ICANN members who
>are telling them that the dnso.org application will be approved.
>
>Secondly, their intention is to get as many of their people on the
>'names council' as possible, and then pass a resolution that no new
>TLDs shall be added until the WIPO study is complete. After that
>delay, they intend to start slowly, introducing one TLD at a time,
>starting with CORE, and passing a resolution that the 60-day wait be
>reinstated. CORE has already agreed to this.
>
>My source tells me that this is already a done deal, and that the big
>money and big companies behind it won't allow anything else to happen.
>
>... From a concerned party ...
>
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