Re: Re[2]: [ga-roots] Re: ICANN Policy -- revised version

["NameCritic" <watch-dog@inreach.com>]

Chris McElroy aka NameCritic

----- Original Message -----
From: "William X. Walsh" <william@userfriendly.com>
To: "Milton Mueller" <Mueller@syr.edu>
Cc: <ga-roots@dnso.org>; <baf@fausett.com>; <lynn@icann.org>
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 3:03 PM
Subject: Re[2]: [ga-roots] Re: ICANN Policy -- revised version


> Hello Milton,
>
> Friday, June 15, 2001, 2:59:31 PM, Milton Mueller wrote:
>
>
> > Clearly you are completely unfamiliar with the history of the
> > US Commerce Dept process that produced the White Paper.
> > The original request for comments asked for suggestions of
> > guiding principles. "Stability" was a principle that emerged over-
> > whelmingly from the comments of the public. The Commerce
> > Dept simply recognized this as a consensus point. It also was
> > ratified by the International Forum on the White Paper.
>
> > In short, there is a well-documented consensus process that
> > produced an adherence to "stability" as a guiding principle for
> > ICANN. It is not "derived from the documents." The documents
> > were derived from the bottom up process.
>
> Stability does not mean accommodating self styled TLD operators who
> operate in private namespace outside the ICANN process.

You are absolutely correct. Nothing about a TLD Operator's personality or
style as you put it have anything to do with it.  Glad you clarified that
for us William, now hopefully ICANN will understand that they should stop
making judgements about who is getting a new tld to run strictly because
they don't like their style. Non-Conformists have achieved more for the
common good throughout history than have conformists.

>
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