Re: [IFWP] .US ?

2002-04-28 Thread Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
very little advertising domestically, for one. On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, Marc Schneiders wrote: Why does it look as if .US is not very much in demand? Many short words are still available. inject.us injection.us Any ideas why? -- Please visit http://www.icannwatch.org

Re: [IFWP] Re: IFWP_LIST V1 #950

2001-11-10 Thread Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
The web site was recently changed. It didn't say that originally. Cf. http://www.icannwatch.org/article.php?sid=450 On 10 Nov 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A short trip to ICANN's website clears it up. http://www.icann.org/mdr2001/ Under Sponsorship Opportunities, they ememphasize/em

[IFWP] Were you consulted?

2000-05-16 Thread Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
As you may know, ICANN suddenly announced last week that it has formed Election and Nominating Committees, without any visible public input. The announcement is at http://www.icann.org/announcements/icann-pr09may00.htm . Commentary suggesting that there were a few flaws in the process can be

Re: [IFWP] Domain Names go to the Dogs!

2000-03-31 Thread Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
Perphaps you could claim it is confusingly similar? : On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Ellen Rony wrote: You know, we registered rony.com but didn't have the vision to get irony, too. Richard Sexton wrote: File this one under "irony". Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL

Re: [IFWP] Fwd: Re: [names] Consensus on consensus

1999-10-08 Thread Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
I would like to note for the record that participation does not equal consent in an ad hoc process of this sort. That is especially the case where the process is continually changed (I will not say "manipulated") so the ground rules do not remain consistent. Statements of this sort are in my

Re: [IFWP] failure notice

1999-10-07 Thread Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
Yes, but they've just been slashdotted... On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Richard J. Sexton wrote: Return-Path: Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 7 Oct 1999 14:30:19 - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: failure notice Hi. This is the NetZero mail server. I'm afraid

Re: [IFWP] Analyzing ICANN - The committee that would be king

1999-09-10 Thread Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
Sorry, the previous post was in relation to the earlier draft. It wasn't that it was disruptive to operations. It was POLITCALLY scary... On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Ken Freed wrote: Perseverence furthers. How's this for historic accuracy? "Evidently exhibiting his displeasure with the situation,

Re: [IFWP] Letter from Santiago

1999-08-31 Thread Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
FWIW some of us think Berkman did a great job. -- A. Michael Froomkin |Professor of Law| [EMAIL PROTECTED] U. Miami School of Law, P.O. Box 248087, Coral Gables, FL 33124 USA +1 (305) 284-4285 | +1 (305) 284-6506 (fax) | http://www.law.tm -- It's hot and humid

Re: [IFWP] Latest on the Australian censorship

1999-08-28 Thread Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Joe Sims wrote: the bylaws make no mention at all of GAC having anything at all to do with ICANN's "legal obligations", and they are perfectly clear that ICANN is not required to follow any GAC advice. FWIW, I have always read the bylaws exactly the same way. The

Re: [IFWP] archive unavailability

1999-08-25 Thread Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/santiago/realtime/GAC-Comminuque-mtg3.html gives the GAC document -- A. Michael Froomkin |Professor of Law| [EMAIL PROTECTED] U. Miami School of Law, P.O. Box 248087, Coral Gables, FL 33124 USA +1 (305) 284-4285 | +1 (305) 284-6506 (fax) |

Re: [IFWP] ANNOUNCE: ICANN-Santiago Remote Participation

1999-08-23 Thread Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
Combo sounds good to me. I will say that if someone has to be the moderator IMHO it would be hard to pick someone better than Prof. Zittrain. But they won't always be that good -- so adding in a little dash of randomness to season the sauce sounds about right I strongly agree that FIFO is

Re: [IFWP] ANNOUNCE: ICANN-Santiago Remote Participation

1999-08-22 Thread Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
I hope very much that the practice in Berlin of "editing" and "summarizing" comments will be kept to a minimum, at least in the case of comments of less than a page. I submitted a short comment, only to have it reduced to two sentences, losing one of my two points. And that was the only

RE: [IFWP] ANNOUNCE: ICANN-Santiago Remote Participation

1999-08-22 Thread Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Ben Edelman wrote: That said, there will be two new rules about remote comments. First, that no comment can be longer than a length still to be decided but likely about 250 words. We don't intend to be mean about this -- but longer comments are So long as the same

Re: [IFWP] ANNOUNCE: ICANN-Santiago Remote Participation

1999-08-22 Thread Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
? On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Diane Cabell wrote: The Chair uses a timer for physical speakers. dc Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law wrote: On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Ben Edelman wrote: That said, there will be two new rules about remote comments. First, that no comment can be longer than

Re: [IFWP] IDNO letter

1999-08-20 Thread Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
Might one ask who made this agenda-setting decision, and when? On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Esther Dyson wrote: Dear Joop and colleagues - I'm writing to respond personally to your proposal for an Individual Domain Name Holders' Constituency. As you know, the Initial Board decided not to

Re: [IFWP] Voter authentication

1999-07-19 Thread Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
Kent Crispin suggests that (1) he doesn't know/trust the groups I am likely to know/trust; (2) many fourth and fifth parties have trust metrics that have no overlap with either of us, and implies (3) that only a group with total or at least enormously wide pre-existing trust can be a TTP in this

Re: [IFWP] Voter authentication

1999-07-18 Thread Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
, Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law wrote: Now, crypto happens to be something I know a little about ( http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/#crypto ) Very impressive. However, crypto and network security are two very different, though related subjects, and expertise in one does

Re: [IFWP] Why fail on purpose?

1999-07-17 Thread Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
Joe Sims wrote: Diane, and I hope you continue; it is helpful. One point I should make: a very significant hurdle to any election process is the lack of money to run it. It might well be a sensible strategy, especially at this stage of its As a late-comer to this debate ... could I have

[IFWP] Mailing lists

1999-07-14 Thread Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
I have found the lists page at dnso.org Am I allowed to post to any of the working group mailing lists other than the public list? Am I a member of any of any subgroups? Am I a member of these lists? If not, why not? I have also received private e-mail from various people who allege they were

Re: [IFWP] TLD Statistics

1999-07-08 Thread Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
publish this. try proceedings of acm? On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Craig Simon wrote: Hi folks, Here's a link that may be of interest to participants in the domain name debates. http://www.flywheel.com/ircw/trends.html The bottom line is that, since I began collecting this data in April

Re: [IFWP] Re: Thoughts on ICANN

1999-07-03 Thread Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
Craig McTaggart asks whether it's unfair for people to accuse ICANN of lacking public virtues when this is a feature rather than a bug in a private body. The danger, it seems to me, is having the worst of both worlds. Public and private have different accountability modes. To oversimplify a

[IFWP] Re: Speculation [Was Re: Anti-cybersquatting Consumer ProtectionAct]

1999-06-30 Thread Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, William X. Walsh wrote (inter alia): Professor, you have it wrong here. The status quo is the legal system. NSI's policy needs to be scrapped to let the legal systems do the job they exist for. If you are a DN holder in .com, like it or not the status quo is the NSI

Re: [IFWP] Re: Anti-cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act

1999-06-30 Thread Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, William X. Walsh wrote: If the sole purpose of me buying property is to deny you use of that desirable property, am I guilty of a crime? Not a crime, but a tort (in many states). Tortious interference with prospective business advantage. Or, the venerable "prima facie

Re: [IFWP] quasi-government role of ICANN illegal under U.S. law

1999-06-29 Thread Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Ronda Hauben wrote: ICANN is illegal and the U.S. government's effort to create ICANN is unconstitutional. Is the Government Corporate Control Act law online? If so where? All US statutes are online in many places. I like the search form at

Re: [IFWP] ICANN Commentary Mike Roberts - ICANN is set up by U.S.govt

1999-06-11 Thread Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
I once wrote an article that discusses the government corporation control act at some length. You can read it at http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/reinvent.htm FWIW I think ICANN does not violate the letter of the GCCA, although it may well violate the spirit of it. -- A. Michael

Re: [IFWP] Re: feedback on NYT article

1999-05-29 Thread Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
Two points: 1) there's an enormous difference between endorsing the entire report "in principle but not in detail" and taking no view of some very controversial parts of it. For those who object to the entire proposal regarding famous marks on he principle of the thing, even an endorsement "in

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

[IFWP] RE: [dnsproc-en] 4th WIPO Panel of Experts member signs ICANN petition

1999-05-24 Thread Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
What exactly is the "WIPO recommendations" that the Board is being asked to adopt: Is it the whole report? Just the annexes? If the latter, it is hideously unfair, for the reasons set out in my commentary at http://personal.law.miami.edu/~amf/commentary.htm . If the former, the tensions

Re: [IFWP] Re: A Commentary on WIPO's final report on domain names

1999-05-19 Thread Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
On Tue, 18 May 1999, Kerry Miller wrote: I am pleased to see your comments here, but I have to object to your final lines. The bracketed deadline suggests that you accept the likelihood that ICANN will take action on this in Bonn, and that therefore public review and comment must try to