Re: RE: [council] Alternate Root paper by Grant

["Milton Mueller" <mueller@syr.edu>]

Just want to make it clear that my objections
were never based on "semantics" but on procedure
and substance. 

Regarding the name of the committee, Erica, if the
agenda called committee the "Committee to Strip 
Melbourne IT of rights to .BIZ," I think you would
object to the title, no? And if in reply someone 
scolded you not to get hung up on "semantics" you 
would think it a bit disingenuous, right?

Sorry for the extreme example. :-) It was intended to
get your attention.

The original title, "Authoritative and experimental
roots," is simply NOT what the committee was set up to consider. 

Names are important. (Do I really have to say this in 
a domain name policy making body?) If Elizabeth and
Philip gave the committee a name that Peter and I
object to, it indicates that there is a lack of
common understanding as to the agenda and mission
of the committee. That misunderstanding needs to be
faced and corrected, not brushed aside.