Re[2]: [ga-roots] Community Roots or Red Herrings

["William X. Walsh" <william@userfriendly.com>]

Hello Kendall,

Thursday, May 10, 2001, 9:26:41 AM, Kendall Dawson wrote:

> At 09:18 AM 5/10/2001 -0700, William X. Walsh wrote:
>>Hello Patrick,
>>
>>Thursday, May 10, 2001, 7:45:17 AM, Patrick Corliss wrote:
>> > You are still avoiding the issue.  What policy should ICANN adopt?
>>
>>And you are still avoiding the issue.
>>
>>Why is a policy necessary?

> ICANN needs to take a "proactive" stance on this matter instead of sticking 
> their heads in the sand. ICANN can pretend that there is no such thing as 
> alternative roots -- but, one day they will wake up and find out that more 
> people are using alternatives than the traditional a-root. MultiBind is 
> only the beginning. Companies like New Net will be popping up all over the 
> place (I saw a new one yesterday).

And what is the problem, exactly?

ICANN can't develop policy prohibiting privately run alt.roots, and
what alt.roots do is outside of the oversight of ICANN.

So there really is nothing for ICANN to do.

I seriously doubt that the alt.roots will ever be able to claim they
are in more use than the real root system.  To make statements to that
effect as fact, and then use those "facts" to justify a policy is a
fallacious way of developing policy.

-- 
Best regards,
William X Walsh
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