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 *************************************************************************** The COOK Report on Internet What Happened to the White Paper? 431 Greenway Ave, Ewing, NJ 08618 USA ICANN a Sham. (updated 10/25/98) See (609) 882-2572 (phone & fax) http://www.cookreport.com/whorules.html [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index to 6 years of COOK Report, how to subscribe, exec summaries, special reports, gloss at http://www.cookreport.com *************************************************************************** __________________________________________________ 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____________________________________________
