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Re: [council] Discussion draft on unique, authoritative root


At 02:27 29.05.2001 -0400, Milton Mueller wrote:
>I see in your "Discussion Draft" and your message
>several references to "established policy."
>Unfortunately, there is no "established policy" for the problems we are 
>considering. New.net did not
>exist when the White Paper was drafted. Nor did
>the possibility of supporting internationalized domain
>names through alternate roots. And of course ICANN's
>Board had not yet selected a TLD that conflicted with
>one claimed by an alternate registry.

there is of course nothing new in new.net. The Ambler .web case raised the 
same issue as new.net did very much earlier; the main difference is the 
amount of money poured into it.

The established policy is the policy that has been followed so far.




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