Looks like a good approach to me. Brian. In message <80256A03.0067442E.00@marconicomms.com>, Gerry Lawrence <Gerry.Lawrence@MARCONI.COM> writes >I would support Leslie's approach but would suggest to refine the words a bit >further. > >I have spent the whole afternoon reading the details of the proposal with >Verisign, and trying to read the public comments but they are coming in thick >and fast. Louis Touton in his e-mail to the Protocol Council invites us to >"provide any comments and recommendations it chooses to offer." In view of some >of the high emotions running through the public comments, some of which seem to >me to be open to some sort of follow-up litigation, I would like to disassociate >us from having to make anything other than technical comments on any protocol >issues that might occur as a result of splitting the three registries. I would >not like to see later any comments that the PSO did not comment against the >proposals, which could be interpreted as for example we favour the continued >running of .com by Verisign as in the proposal. > >So maybe we could take Leslie's words to read something like this: > >"The PSO has considered the proposal only with regard to potential >protocol-related technical issues as a result of splitting .com, .net and .org >into three registries, and can see no problems with this approach providing that >the stability of the DNS resolution is protected. " > >Gerry > > >---------------------- Forwarded by Gerry Lawrence/MAIN/MC1 on 02/03/2001 06:17 >pm --------------------------- > > > > > >Leslie Daigle <leslie@THINKINGCAT.COM> on 01/03/2001 04:58:39 pm > >Please respond to Leslie Daigle <leslie@THINKINGCAT.COM> > > > > To: PSO-PC@LIST.ETSI.FR > > cc: (bcc: Gerry Lawrence/MAIN/MC1) > > > > Subject: Re: Additional Melbourne Meeting Topic: Proposed > Revisions to Agreementswith VeriS > (fwd) > > > > > > > > >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 >------------------------------------------------------------------- -- B W Moore Lucent Technologies Tel: +44 1206 762335 Fax: +44 1206 762336 =========================================================================