[IFWP] MAC Final Recommendations

1999-05-26 Thread Karl Auerbach
This just in... The final MAC Report may now be found at: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rcs/macberlin.html --karl--

[IFWP] Today's ICANN's Berlin Meeting (Wedesday)

1999-05-26 Thread Ken Freed
Community: Moments after the closure of Wednesday's ICANN Berlin meeting, my gut reponse? Social issues are being dismissed in the urgent rush to get the ball rolling, get the profits rolling in. This is unfortunate. The DNS patterns established today will affect our world for a century. We need

[IFWP] Remote Participation / ICANN's Berlin Meeting

1999-05-26 Thread Bret A. Fausett
Ben and Wendy -- Thank you for your efforts to make remote participation possible. I was very impressed with the camera work, the real time scribe and the remote comments page. I really had a sense that I was seeing what was going on in the room. Aside from several "net congestion rebuffering"

Re: [IFWP] MAC Final Recommendations

1999-05-26 Thread Jeff Williams
Karl and all, First please let me apologize for cross posting this to the MAC list. My single biggest question is, what is the criterion for determining legal identity? I will have more comments on this report of the MAC meeting when some of our people get back from Berlin and we have

Re: [IFWP] Today's ICANN's Berlin Meeting (Wedesday)

1999-05-26 Thread A.M. Rutkowski
In case anyone else hasn't done so, please let me be one of those that says thank you for all the hard work the Berkman Center and yourself have put into making this information available. hear, hear! Without them, we'd have just about zip. --tony

Re: [IFWP] Today's ICANN's Berlin Meeting (Wedesday)

1999-05-26 Thread Kent Crispin
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 08:55:39PM +0200, Ben Edelman wrote: I'm interested in Ken's suggestions as expressed below and intend to follow up with some specifics within a couple days after finishing this round of travel. Mostly wanted to make sure everyone knows that the meeting archive -- of

Re: [IFWP] Today's ICANN's Berlin Meeting (Wedesday)

1999-05-26 Thread Ellen Rony
Hi, again. I'm in the process of linking from my ICANN page (www.domainhandbook.com/icann.html) to various pages in the Berkman Center Berlin archive. There's a broken link at: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/berlin/archive/junmurai-pres/ Root Server Advisory Committee presentation by Jun

RE: [IFWP] Today's ICANN's Berlin Meeting (Wedesday)

1999-05-26 Thread Ben Edelman
Ken Freed wrote: As with most of us participating online (awake since 6 am in Denver), I felt frustrated at never hearing our comments mentioned except as something that would be read aloud at some future point. But the point never came, the momentum in the room being too robust, (to be

Re: [IFWP] Today's ICANN's Berlin Meeting (Wedesday)

1999-05-26 Thread Jonathan Zittrain
Deutsche Telekom provided Net connectivity, and Germanynet augmented our own 25-stream realvideo server with their own. The rest of the scribing/webcast/comments system has been floated by the Berkman Center, with a commitment by ICANN to reimburse our hard costs once it's not penniless. It was

Re: [IFWP] Today's ICANN's Berlin Meeting (Wedesday)

1999-05-26 Thread Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
It would have seemed cooler if I'd had any sense it was getting through to the board. PS - does anyone know who belonged to the voice that made the anti-academic remark? Was it Roberts or a Board member? -- A. Michael Froomkin |Professor of Law| [EMAIL PROTECTED] U. Miami School

Re: [IFWP] Today's ICANN's Berlin Meeting (Wedesday)

1999-05-26 Thread Esther Dyson
FWIW, the messages that said more than "go fast" or "go slow" *did* get through to the board, most especially Michael's speicifc comments on the WIPO doc and its annexes. We have a printout that I will distribute to the board today. Also, we noted the balance of comments in favor of the