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 > > -- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > "Winters never cease." > -- ThinkingCat > > Leslie Daigle > leslie@thinkingcat.com > ------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- "The best laid plans are written in pencil." -- ThinkingCat Leslie Daigle leslie@thinkingcat.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- =========================================================================