FYI: http://tbtf.com/blog/1999-10-31.html While ICANN meetings are now open to the public, operations of its advisory committees still transpire in closed rooms. On 1 November, the most controversial such ICANN panel, the Government Advisory Committee, drafted a proposal to completely overturn the way country codes are assigned and managed under RFC 1591. GAC discussed the proposal behind closed doors on 2 November. (GAC's bland official notes give no indication of any controversy.) A copy of Principles for the Delegation and Management of Country Code Top Level Domains leaked outside the meeting room. The GAC chair, when asked, would not discuss it, saying it was still preliminary. Respectfully, Jay Fenello, New Media Relations ------------------------------------ http://www.fenello.com 770-392-9480 "We are creating the most significant new jurisdiction we've known since the Louisiana purchase, yet we are building it just outside the constitution's review." -- Larry Lessig, Harvard Law School, on ICANN
