Re: Dallas Stakeholders/SO and ICANN meeting Announcment

1999-02-09 Thread jeff Williams
Esther and all, Noted. However we are in no position to arrange anything with American Airlines, as they are under some pilot shortage problem at the moment. In addition as stated in the announcement, arrangements for travel are your own affair. Are you planning on attending? Esther Dyson

TM v. DNS?

1999-02-09 Thread Harold Feld
Martin Schwimmer wrote: >When "TM Interests" "equate" DNs and TMs (I use quotes to indicate I don't >endorse that phrasing) I don't believe that, if they thought about it, they >would disagree that the DNS system and the TM system are different systems >with different purposes. >Nevertheless,

Re: Look at the known facts, not the clouds.

1999-02-09 Thread Bill Lovell
At 12:38 PM 2/9/99 -0800, you wrote: >Diane Cabell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I agree that membership will not likely attract the world population en >>mass. But every reference to "the lists" as being the only voice >>ignores people who do not use these lists or the English language as >>the

Re: Trademarks vs DNS

1999-02-09 Thread Bret A. Fausett
Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote: >The big rift, between Barcelona/Monterrey and Washington DC, *is* the >involvement of the trademark contingent. Do you disagree? Yes. I don't think anyone is suggesting that trademark interests don't have a legitimate interest in DNS issues. In fact, the White Paper m

Re: Dallas Stakeholders/SO and ICANN meeting Announcment

1999-02-09 Thread Esther Dyson
Jeff, May I humbly suggest you arrange special discount fares with American Airlines? Esther At 04:11 PM 09/02/99 +, jeff Williams wrote: >All, > > We (INEGroup) are preparing an international Internet Stakeholders >meeting in Dallas at Texas Stadium for Feb. 25 thru the 28. We have >ope

Ombudsman [Was: Re: Public Advocate?]

1999-02-09 Thread Bill Lovell
At 09:10 AM 2/9/99 -0500, Harold Feld wrote: Quite a thoughtful analysis of the problem of public representation, which I won't retain here for purposes of bandwidth. What it does for me is bring to mind a process long used in Oregon for nursing homes, with respect to residents that cannot or d

Re: Draft New Draft

1999-02-09 Thread William X. Walsh
OK, so you say that 70+ ccTLD managers read "The subject says it all" and then just hit reply? Come on Mr Broomfield. And I notice you did not answer my comments about your misstatements on the points of the 5 registries or any of the other rather salient parts of my message. Very telling inde

Dallas Stakeholders/SO and ICANN meeting Announcment

1999-02-09 Thread jeff Williams
All, We (INEGroup) are preparing an international Internet Stakeholders meeting in Dallas at Texas Stadium for Feb. 25 thru the 28. We have opened this meeting to include any and all "Interested Parties" to attend to discuss Supporting organization considerations regarding the ICANN/NTIA/Mo

Re: AP* is planning DNSO meetings in Singapore starting March 2

1999-02-09 Thread jeff Williams
William and all, Pot kettle black! William X. Walsh wrote: > I see that no one can make comments any longer without getting villified by Mr > Sondow. > > These meetings are actually planned for exactly the purpose you state, so that > members can attend both sets of meetings. > > I won't deba

Re: Draft New Draft

1999-02-09 Thread jeff Williams
William and all, Pot kettle black again! William X. Walsh wrote: > Mr Broomfield CONTINUES to take things out of context and make them say things > they never said. > > On 09-Feb-99 John Charles Broomfield wrote: > > > I'm happy to see that you're not interested in spreading FUD, since in > >

Re: Look at the known facts, not the clouds.

1999-02-09 Thread Greg Skinner
Diane Cabell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I agree that membership will not likely attract the world population en >mass. But every reference to "the lists" as being the only voice >ignores people who do not use these lists or the English language as >their primary form of communication. It overlo

Re: Trademarks vs DNS

1999-02-09 Thread Roeland M.J. Meyer
At 01:21 PM 2/9/99 -0500, Bret A. Fausett wrote: >Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote: > >>I'm just tossing this to start things off. It addresses the fundamental >>issue wrt trademarks. It is an insight that I think we can all agree with >>at some level. Much of the disagreements between the two drafts are

Re: Fees, costs, and domain name prices

1999-02-09 Thread Greg Skinner
Milton Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Do you see any danger that if ICANN becomes dependent on revenues >from accreditation and registration volume fees that it may--like the >ITU did--become hostile to any major competitive threat to the >business firms and technologies that threaten to ove

Re: Draft New Draft

1999-02-09 Thread William X. Walsh
Mr Broomfield CONTINUES to take things out of context and make them say things they never said. On 09-Feb-99 John Charles Broomfield wrote: > > I'm happy to see that you're not interested in spreading FUD, since in > > recent days you've accused the IATLD of being a fake, me of having some > > e

Re: ICANN postings

1999-02-09 Thread Einar Stefferud
Hi Mike -- What we all need is to have one list designated as the discussion list of record. Perhaps there shoudl be more than one, given the need to discuss separate topics (DNSO, PSO, ASO, MAC, etc) on different lists, but without any designation we are essentially being dealt with in what feel

Re: Fees, costs, and domain name prices

1999-02-09 Thread Milton Mueller
Esther: I'd appreciate a frank answer to these questions: > "ICANN is seeking public comment on... a proposed fee structure based on an > initial accreditation fee and ongoing charges on registration volume." Do you recognize the possibility--just the *possibility* mind you--that treating NSI

Re: Look at the known facts, not the clouds.

1999-02-09 Thread Tamar Frankel
Must we choose? Can we not have a representation of both? Tamar At 09:31 AM 2/9/99 -0500, you wrote: >I agree that membership will not likely attract the world population en >mass. But every reference to "the lists" as being the only voice >ignores people who do not use these lists or the Englis

Re: UNSUBSCRIBE

1999-02-09 Thread Tamar Frankel
Please do not unsubscribe me but keep me on the list Tamar Frankel At 08:09 AM 2/9/99 -0800, you wrote: > > > > YOUR NAME HERE Boston University School of Law 765 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, MA 02215 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FIX the damm mailer

1999-02-09 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 09:15 AM 2/9/99 -0800, Michael Dillon wrote: >On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, John M. Brown wrote: > >> Ok, so now it seems that we can't even run a mailing list >> program. The headers are constantly changing and this >> is recking havoc with various filters. > >This is par for the course. When vrx.net

Re: Trademarks vs DNS

1999-02-09 Thread Martin B. Schwimmer
Mr. Cerf has identified the essential quality of two different systems (with different purposes) and correctly observed that there is a fundamental conflict in that domain names require only uniqueness (defined as identity) for the DNS to achieve its intended purpose of designating IP hosts while

Re: ISOC -Reply

1999-02-09 Thread jeff Williams
Raul and all, This has been one of the many continuing problems with the ISOC for some years now, and continues to be so. Raúl Echeberría wrote: > >ISOC, in particular, is the most open organisation that I know. This does > >not mean that they have to consult with the members on every decisio

Re: one more time !!!!

1999-02-09 Thread Jay Fenello
At 2/9/99, 03:46 AM, Kent Crispin wrote: >On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 10:59:52PM -0500, Bret A. Fausett wrote: >> >> Fundamentally different in where they leave the final decision and >>the level of detail with which they approach the problem, but hard to >>call one proposal "far deeper" and "serious

RE: Fees, costs, and domain name prices

1999-02-09 Thread Esther Dyson
Yes, to answer your question below, we *are* seeking input on these questions, to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Though I can tell you right now that customers of other registrars do not automatically revert to NSI if their registrar goes out of business. As a registrar, NSI had no special privileges/right

UNSUBSCRIBE

1999-02-09 Thread Victoria Duff

Re: [Membership] The People's Republic of ICANN?

1999-02-09 Thread Michael Sondow
Einar Stefferud a écrit: > What we have here is a very serious startup problem of bootstraping > from no members at all to some Interent informed memebers who are > dedicated to openness and due process. And of course Einar Stefferud's going to decide who they are. > Surely we cannot feel comof

Re: Play it again Sam.

1999-02-09 Thread Kent Crispin
On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 01:11:36AM -0800, William X. Walsh wrote: > > I would have to go back and do a line by line comparison, but I won't be > surprised if I find most of the language in the current draft came from your > own draft Kent, which was done by ignoring input from the DNSO.org list >

Re: Trademarks vs DNS

1999-02-09 Thread Bret A. Fausett
Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote: >I'm just tossing this to start things off. It addresses the fundamental >issue wrt trademarks. It is an insight that I think we can all agree with >at some level. Much of the disagreements between the two drafts are on >trademark issues. I feel that it is long past time

Re: FIX the damm mailer

1999-02-09 Thread Michael Dillon
On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, John M. Brown wrote: > Ok, so now it seems that we can't even run a mailing list > program. The headers are constantly changing and this > is recking havoc with various filters. This is par for the course. When vrx.net took over the NEWDOM list a couple of years ago, they n

Trademarks vs DNS

1999-02-09 Thread Roeland M.J. Meyer
I'm just tossing this to start things off. It addresses the fundamental issue wrt trademarks. It is an insight that I think we can all agree with at some level. Much of the disagreements between the two drafts are on trademark issues. I feel that it is long past time to resolve them, or admit that

Jim Fleming's request for removal from Media Visions

1999-02-09 Thread Ken Freed
I really dislike getting personal on these lists, but this matter has gotten out of hand, and must be addressed. Jim Fleming has started emailing lots of people lately with the request that his statement in the DNS Voices section of Media Visions be removed. He has sent his removal request to Est

Re: ISOC support of DNSO.ORG Washington DC draft.

1999-02-09 Thread Roeland M.J. Meyer
At 12:24 PM 2/9/99 +, Clare Wardle wrote: >Roeland Meyer wrote: >>They clearly intend to place a priori restrictions on new Top Level Domain >>(TLD) names. All of this in the interests of protecting trademark owners. > >Trade mark owners don't necessarily benefit by these measures - indeed for

Re: Look at the known facts, not the clouds.

1999-02-09 Thread Diane Cabell
I agree that membership will not likely attract the world population en mass. But every reference to "the lists" as being the only voice ignores people who do not use these lists or the English language as their primary form of communication. It overlooks people who do not rely on the lists as a

Public Advocate?

1999-02-09 Thread Harold Feld
Both professors Frankel and Zitran worry about the problem of protecting the rights and interests of "passive users" (i.e., those who use the Internet but do not participate in the "Internet governance" debate). I first raised this point in 1997, as one of my concerns regarding the gTLD-MoU.

RE: Draft New Draft

1999-02-09 Thread William X. Walsh
On 09-Feb-99 Elisabeth PORTENEUVE wrote: > We do agree that ISO3166 match up territories not countries, > and that RFC1591 states correctly: >"The IANA is not in the business of deciding >what is and what is not a country." > I hope we do agree that governem

Re: ISOC support of DNSO.ORG Washington DC draft.

1999-02-09 Thread Clare Wardle
Roeland Meyer wrote: >They clearly intend to place a priori restrictions on new Top Level Domain >(TLD) names. All of this in the interests of protecting trademark owners. Trade mark owners don't necessarily benefit by these measures - indeed for every trade mark owner who does, there is usually

Re: ISOC support of DNSO.ORG Washington DC draft.

1999-02-09 Thread Clare Wardle
Roeland Meyer wrote: >They clearly intend to place a priori restrictions on new Top Level Domain >(TLD) names. All of this in the interests of protecting trademark owners. Trade mark owners don't necessarily benefit by these measures - indeed for every trade mark owner who does, there is usually

Re: [Membership] The People's Republic of ICANN?

1999-02-09 Thread Bill Lovell
At 01:39 AM 2/9/99 -0500, you wrote: >Bill Lovell a écrit: > >> >The fact is that until something happens that directly affects them and that >> >they feel they can be an activist about, they will not get involved. And >> >history tends to indicate that most of those who get involved in such a >>

Re: Play it again Sam.

1999-02-09 Thread William X. Walsh
On 09-Feb-99 Kent Crispin wrote: > On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 12:28:36AM -0800, William X. Walsh wrote: > > > > > I was not the editor of this draft, and I contributed only small > > > parts of the text. > > > > Then please provide the names of the people who edited and contributed text > > to

Re: Play it again Sam.

1999-02-09 Thread Kent Crispin
On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 12:28:36AM -0800, William X. Walsh wrote: > > > I was not the editor of this draft, and I contributed only small > > parts of the text. > > Then please provide the names of the people who edited and contributed text to > this draft. David Maher, Jon Englund, and Joe A

Re: Play it again Sam.

1999-02-09 Thread William X. Walsh
On 09-Feb-99 Kent Crispin wrote: > On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 07:00:43AM +0200, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: > > Roeland > > > > > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Roeland M.J. Meyer" > > writes: > > > > > There are some things that are different from the BMW draft and they > > > have enough mer

Re: Play it again Sam.

1999-02-09 Thread Kent Crispin
On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 07:00:43AM +0200, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: > Roeland > > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Roeland M.J. Meyer" writes: > > > There are some things that are different from the BMW draft and they > > have enough merit to garner some impressive support, over the BMW > >

Re: Draft New Draft

1999-02-09 Thread Kent Crispin
On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 11:15:14PM -0800, William X. Walsh wrote: > [...] > > This is a perfect example of a situation where the so called "sovereign" > language Kent Crispin seems to want to enshrine can be abused. I have proposed no such language. My position has been that *no* language abo

Re: [Membership] The People's Republic of ICANN?

1999-02-09 Thread Einar Stefferud
Yes Indeed Joop! What we have here is a very serious startup problem of bootstraping from no members at all to some Interent informed memebers who are dedicated to openness and due process. Surely we cannot feel comofrtable saying the we mus start out with the least well informed consituencies t

Re: Support for Paris draft

1999-02-09 Thread Einar Stefferud
Hello Kent -- I may live to regret responding to you on this, but... >From Kent's message Mon, 8 Feb 1999 01:47:33 -0800: } }On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 07:43:57PM -0800, William X. Walsh wrote: } }> > Furthermore, it is explicitly the case that the Names Council only }> > gives recommendations t

Re: ICANN & DNSO

1999-02-09 Thread Einar Stefferud
Hi Esther and all ... Thanks for clearly stating that you support our continued work on finding ways to meld the better parts of both proposals into something that will obtain greater consensus support than either of them do by themselves. We need to be very careful to understand that they corre

Re: Fw: Moving Forward

1999-02-09 Thread Einar Stefferud
Hi Ken and all -- What prey tell is the problem with this same very large bunch of people exchanging EMail to get the same job done? By my count you want to get at least 27 people together on a phone call to edit text? Or to build a chart of differences and work on reducing them. Or somethign

RE: Paris Draft Site Up with Full Draft Text

1999-02-09 Thread Roberto Gaetano
Kent, You wrote: > According to the dnso.association.org web page the attendees of the > Paris meeting were: > > Antony Van Couvering > Bernard Turcotte > David Johnson > Don Telage > Elisabeth Porteneuve > Fay Howard > Jay Fenello > Kilnam Chon > Oscar Robles-Garay > Roberto Gaetano > > Is

Re: A little off topic

1999-02-09 Thread Bill Lovell
At 06:41 PM 2/4/99 -0800, you wrote: >Kent Crispin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>You might see it that way. Another characterization might be that TM >>interests have noted that under current social reality domain names >>have value as advertisment, and also that the DNS, in conjunction >>with t

Re: Fees, costs, and domain name prices

1999-02-09 Thread William X. Walsh
On 09-Feb-99 Michael Sondow wrote: > What I'm afraid of is that, due to the cost of supporting new registries, > and of supporting ICANN, domain names will cost %200 or more per year. Well, I think we can't jump to such conclusions when there is no evidence of that happening. Jumping to concl

Re: Useful Comments Re: DNSO process and Drafts submitted to ICANN

1999-02-09 Thread Michael Sondow
Einar Stefferud a écrit: > And, for Michael's information, the fact that he has contractred with > an ISP to do everythig for his DNS Zone, and not let him have password > control of it is his decision and not a feature of the DNS! > > In my own case, I cvontrol all aspects of the content of my

RE: Draft New Draft

1999-02-09 Thread William X. Walsh
On 09-Feb-99 Teddy A Purwadi wrote: > > It was at slashdot.org discussions. Yes, I think we should ask to ISO-3166 > Maintenance Agency, what kind of their authority to put these *flame* name > into standard name and country code into the international list. > Who responsible?. Its take a m

Re: Fees, costs, and domain name prices

1999-02-09 Thread Michael Sondow
William X. Walsh a écrit: > Well, that will depend on the registries, and whether they charge the $35/yr > that NSI charges, or whether they pass it along at cost, and do collateral > marketing of other services. > > I don't see this as a question that ICANN answer, or indeed has any place being

Singapore timetable queries

1999-02-09 Thread Michael Sondow
Is ICANN still thinking of holding meetings in Singapore at the end of February (as the ICANN website said)? Is the M.A.C. meeting going to be held on the same day, March 2nd, as the DNSO meeting? Will there be DNSO meetings on March 5th? ... We e

Re: [Membership] The People's Republic of ICANN?

1999-02-09 Thread William X. Walsh
On 09-Feb-99 Michael Sondow wrote: > These are no more than self-serving lies told by people who are so insecure > that they fear extinction of their own weak voices in the mass. > The public is involved in every facet of life, from local community boards > deciding what is done in their neig

Re: [Membership] The People's Republic of ICANN?

1999-02-09 Thread Michael Sondow
Bill Lovell a écrit: > >The fact is that until something happens that directly affects them and that > >they feel they can be an activist about, they will not get involved. And > >history tends to indicate that most of those who get involved in such a > >fashion, tend to get involved only for th

RE: Fees, costs, and domain name prices

1999-02-09 Thread William X. Walsh
On 09-Feb-99 Michael Sondow wrote: > The preface to the recently published ICANN registry accreditation > guidelines includes the following about money: > > "NSI will be required to provide equal access to registry services through > the shared registration system to all accredited registra

Re: [Membership] The People's Republic of ICANN?

1999-02-09 Thread Michael Sondow
Diane Cabell a écrit: > > Greg Skinner wrote: > > > I support the creation of a public interest, or netizens SO, if you > > like. > > That's what the At Large Membership is supposed to be. Why, then , are there no spokespeople for the public interest on the Membership Advisory Committee?

Fees, costs, and domain name prices

1999-02-09 Thread Michael Sondow
The preface to the recently published ICANN registry accreditation guidelines includes the following about money: "NSI will be required to provide equal access to registry services through the shared registration system to all accredited registrars (including itself) at prices to be agreed upon b

Re: [Membership] The People's Republic of ICANN?

1999-02-09 Thread Michael Sondow
Greg Skinner a écrit: > The public has the right to file license challenges against licensees > they do not feel are acting in the public interest. The public may > also challenge a licensee at its renewal time. That's right. There are public review boards. They aren't always active, but someti

Re: Play it again Sam.

1999-02-09 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Roeland In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Roeland M.J. Meyer" writes: > There are some things that are different from the BMW draft and they > have enough merit to garner some impressive support, over the BMW > draft. PLEASE, it's not a BMW draft. It is Kent's/INTA Draft. It has almost no suppo