Esther and all,
Esther Dyson wrote:
> 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.
Oh yes with Joe Simms and Mike Roberts help with DNSO.ORG's ongoing
fiasco of course. And it that this particular action has taken place with
DNSO.ORG and members of the ICANN "Initial" and Interim board along with
your legal council, you must admit that that is abit "ODD", and I will leave it
at that.
>
>
> HOWEVER, you and I both know that there is no such thing as "a few ICANN
> members." ICANN does not have members yet.
Yes, and one of the biggest mistakes that the ICANN has made. HOWEVER
it is now becoming clearer as to WHY they did not include an Individual
Membership Organization in the Bylaws. Does "Centralized Authority" come
to mind. If it does, doesn't that very idea stand in stark contrast to the
White Paper in terms of "Bottom-up" stakeholder determined structure?
Well, we think it does.... Your mileage may vary though....
>
>
> 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.
And as it cannot be decided by individuals as part of an Individual Membership
Organization, we believe that the ICANN is acting outside of the requirements
of the White Paper, as stated above, on several counts.
> 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.
Of course the ICANN Board has made no "Decisions", but it certainly has, by
it's allowance and action of Joe Simms and Mike Roberts to work with
DNSO.ORG, the preference it has. Others mileage may vary....
>
>
> 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 ...
> >
> >------- End of Forwarded Message
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