[council] Re: [cctld-discuss] www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/14999.html

[Elisabeth Porteneuve <Elisabeth.Porteneuve@cetp.ipsl.fr>]

Greetings,

| Option 3 involves the ccTLDs using alternative root servers, does it not?
| And the ccTLD's vote to explore this as an option was unanimous, was it not?

I am glad to learn how easy and straightforward it is.
Congratulations.
Looking forward to reading next scoop.

Elisabeth Porteneuve
AFNIC
Names Council ccTLD rep


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From: "Andrew Orlowski [The Register]" <andrew.orlowski@theregister.co.uk>
To: "Peter de Blanc" <pdeblanc@usvi.net>
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Subject: [cctld-discuss] Re: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/14999.html
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Greetings Peter

I'm touched by this very public display of loyalty to ICANN, but I don't
think a correction is necessary.

As I wrote,

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/14999.html
> But a quick reality check. Dengate Thrush tells us that going nuclear
isn't the preferred goal. Far from it:-
>
>"Option three [leaving the current DNS system] is clearly our least
favoured at the
> moment. But the issue turns on outcome of option two," he told us.
>
>"It may well be that we stay with option one [SO status within ICANN]. We
stay a bunch
>of countries that can have own policies - with their own trademark policies
and so
> on... but that's the status quo. What Option two promises is a council of
country codes taking part
> in global decision making; and with policy ... binding on members"


Option 3 involves the ccTLDs using alternative root servers, does it not?
And the ccTLD's vote to explore this as an option was unanimous, was it not?

Best wishes,

Andrew Orlowski
The Register
San Francisco


----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter de Blanc" <pdeblanc@usvi.net>
To: <andrew.orlowski@theregister.co.uk>
Cc: <cctld-adcom@wwtld.org>; <cctld-discuss@wwtld.org>; <council@dnso.org>;
"'Louis Touton'" <touton@icann.org>; "'Andrew McLaughlin'" <ajm@icann.org>
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 8:09 PM
Subject: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/14999.html


>
> Dear Andrew:
>
> With reference to your article,
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/14999.html
>
> I would propose a slight correction, but one with major importance. You
say
> that
>
> "At last week's ICANN meetings in California, the country code chiefs
formed
> a working group to explore the option of taking the name business beyond
its
> control."
> The correct reporting would be "formed a working group to explore and
> develop possible alternative scenarios and proposals for the relationship
of
> ccTLD organization within ICANN, with particular emphasis on seeking a
> guaranteed level of representation on the ICANN board, coupled with a
> guaranteed level of funding of ICANN from ccTLDs"
> This is an explosive issue, yes- however, our (ccTLD) preferred outcome is
> to work within ICANN to build and strengthen the consensus based,
bottom-up
> process of Internet Governance.
> (final paragraph for background, not for attribution)
> With all due respect to my colleague, Peter Dengate Thrush, I wish to
point
> out that in all politics, there are the liberals and the conservatives, or
> the left and the right. The dynamics of (potentially) extremely different
> viewpoints or "takes" on the same situation often lend new perspective to,
> and expand our thinking process. In this case, Peter D T expresses an
> extreme viewpoint. However, Peter DT is a lawyer, and prominent in the
> Internet Society of New Zealand, and makes a valuable contribution to our
> constituency. Speaking personally, I am "slightly to the right of Attila
the
> Hun"
> Regards
> Peter de Blanc
> Chair, ccTLD Administrative Committee.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Peter de Blanc
> http://www.islands.vi/~pdeblanc
> Visit a Virgin! http://www.usvi.net
>
>
>

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