At 07:11 PM 3/19/99 -0800, William X. Walsh wrote:
>
>On 20-Mar-99 Gordon Cook wrote:
>> NTIA has not a shred of legally defensible authority to be doing what it is
>> doing. I have triple sourced this. But to challenge NTIA now you need a
>> legally agrieved party. With the PGMedia case now history we don't
>> presently have a legally aggrieved party. Damned shame. because NTIA will
>> soon give ICANN the root and with the DNSO people calling all over
>> themselves to get ICANN to comply to their way of thinking they are
>> de-facto accepting ICANN legal authority and ensnaring themselves in
>> ICANN's clutches.
>>
>> we need an IODesign lawsuit. It cannot possibly happen too fast.
>>
>
>I couldn't agree more with you here Gordan. Someone needs to challenge the
>legality of this process, and I think ICANN and the process will be the better
>for it. It may end up being a good vehicle for forcing concessions from the
>USG/ICANN to make this process more open and representative.
>
>I think IODesign is a much more credible plaintiff than PGMedia, having
>committed to restraining themselves to a single gTLD. They can present a much
>more compelling case than a plaintiff who is trying to lay claim to hundreds
>upon hundreds of them. Other prospective registries would also be credibile
>plaintiffs or co-plaintiffs in such an action, as it seems PGMedia is alone in
>its craziness of claiming so many TLDs.
Among the gTLD claimants, PGMedia is strictly alone in failing to
co-operate with other gTLD claimants and honoring each others name space.
PGMedia is the ONLY source of conflicts thus far. This is because they do
not recognize any of the other players. Even among gTLD players, PGMedia is
rogue.
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