Stef and all, Einar Stefferud wrote: > Hello Romerto -- Thsi is one place where we have a wide disagreement. > > Most of us in ORSC see the DNSO as being a major force in managing the > cooperative coordination of the DNS ROOT and its TLD registries. We here at the INEGroup feel essentially the same way here. > > > We do not see ceding everything to ICAAN, and standing around just > giving advice in the hopes hat it might be listened to. Good point. The DNSO, ASO, PSO and even the ICANN belongs to the Internet Stakeholders/user, not some small group of self appointed or otherwise appointed BoD. Any of these SO's must be a "Bottom-Up" structure, and therefore determined by the Stakeholders/Users. Any of the administrative functions, committee members, BoD memebers must serve at the direction of the Membership. > > > Instread, we see ICANN as an oversight entity that wathes to see that > the SOs operate according to properly open and fair ways to get the > coordination mangement job done. Exactly. As well as a facilitator for the membership organizations. > > > We do not intend to become mere advisors. Thsi will need to be > nergotriated with ICANN, if ICANN ever gets the authority is wants to > negotiate anything. Well we are not really sure that the ICANN is ready to take on this task in it's present form. > > > And, as long as ICANN plays its cagey game of hide and seek, with > secret side meetings with insider track SO formation efforts, Then > ICANN is a major part of the problem, and no part of the solution. Agreed. This kind of activity must cease from the existing ICANN "Initial" and Interim Board post haste! > > > In short, we are not here that you state so clearly! > > Cheers...\Stef > > >From your message Wed, 6 Jan 1999 20:40:43 +0100 : > } > }Tony, > } > }You wrote: > }> Joop, > }> > }> >>> 4) Provide Domain Name Registrants with an undistorted free market for > }> >>> Domain Name registration. > }> > }> The purpose of ICANN is to facilitate coordination of > }> the arrangements for common name and number reference > }> values. It is a technical-operational objective. > }> > }Indeed. > }But the purpose of the DNSO is to advise ICANN on policies, and this is not > }a merely technical-operational objective. > } > }Regards > }Roberto > } Regards, -- Jeffrey A. Williams CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng. Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC. E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact Number: 972-447-1894 Address: 5 East Kirkwood Blvd. Grapevine Texas 75208 __________________________________________________ To receive the digest version instead, send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To SUBSCRIBE forward this message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNSUBSCRIBE, forward this message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Problems/suggestions regarding this list? Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___END____________________________________________
