Howdy,
Can we take silence as consent, or at least not dissent, from
W3C/Philipp and Danny? Guys?
If there is general agreement, who wants to communicate it to
ICANN in time for their open meeting?
Leslie.
Gerry Lawrence wrote:
>
> 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
>
> --
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> "Winters never cease."
> -- ThinkingCat
>
> Leslie Daigle
> leslie@thinkingcat.com
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