bear in mind that as of this summer the US postal service had and likely
still does have designs on it.... they had gone so far as to sit down with
jon postell early last year and somebody went so far as to plant a
fradulent story on one of the mecklermedia rags saying that the Reston IFWP
meeting endorsed the postal services claims....
Now I will have to admit that i did not know about any DNRC proposal... I'd
be surprised if such isn't a helluva lot better than what the USPS would do
with the domain.
some one should smoke out those (USPS ) folk fast or there could be a nasty
surprise.
>Bill Lovell a �crit:
>>
>> Rather than sweat what, so far as one can tell from this list,
>> will be a meeting of 6 - 7 people in somebody's back bedroom
>> in California, thought might be given instead to attendance at
>> the NTIA meeting in D. C.:
>>
>> http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/press/021099dotusmtg.htm
>
>Thanks, Bill, for bringing up the NTIA meeting on .US. This could be
>a very important event. If the USG decides to adopt the proposals of
>Kathy Kleiman and the DNRC (supported by many Internet public
>interest organizations) for reorganization of .US, much needed
>relief could thereby be granted from the .com/.org/.net vicious
>circle, at least for Americans.
>
>We (the ICIIU) believe that the reorganization of .US and its open
>access on a non-profit basis to individuals and non-commercial
>organizations is a key element in breaking open the name space
>bottle-neck in the United States, and we strongly encourage people
>on these lists to attend the March 9th meeting in Washington.
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