I think I would phrase it rather as -- having reviewed it, I don't see any issues in it for the PSO to raise concern over. The one concern we might have is in terms of stability of DNS resolution over .com/.org/.net, and they do seem to be aware of that to any extent we might offer input. Leslie. Steve Bellovin wrote: > > I personally don't see any particular need for the Protocol Council to > comment on this. > > ------- Forwarded Message > > Message-ID: <3A9E5287.BF690F5E@icann.org> > Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 05:45:43 -0800 > From: Louis Touton <touton@icann.org> > X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) > X-Accept-Language: en,ja > MIME-Version: 1.0 > To: smb@research.att.com, Fabio.Bigi@itu.int, leslie@thinkingcat.com, > ph@w3.org, bridget.cosgrave@etsi.fr, gerry.lawrence@marconi.com, > brian@bwmc.demon.co.uk, djweitzner@w3.org > Cc: Livia Rosu <Livia.Rosu@etsi.fr> > Subject: Additional Melbourne Meeting Topic: Proposed Revisions to Agreements > with VeriSign > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > To the Protocol Council: > > Today ICANN posted on its web site > <http://www.icann.org/melbourne/proposed-verisign-agreements-topic.htm> > a proposal for revision of the registry agreement for the .com/net/.org > registry. Details of the proposal are explained in the topic paper at > the URL set forth above. One aspect of the proposal is to separate the > contractual arrangements for the three TLDs; the topic paper provides > links to proposed registry agreements for each of them. > > The proposed revision will be discussed at the 12 March 2001 Public > Forum in Melbourne. The Board expects to consider the matter at > Melbourne, but to take action on this topic in the weeks after the > Melbourne meeting. In connection with the Board's consideration of > this revision, the Protocol Supporting Organiation is requested to > provide any comments and recommendations it chooses to offer. > > Best regards, > > Louis Touton > ICANN Secretary > > ------- End of Forwarded Message > > --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- "Winters never cease." -- ThinkingCat Leslie Daigle leslie@thinkingcat.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- =========================================================================