RE: [ga] ICANN - CCTLD Fight Growing

[Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

Hello Harald,

Don't let anyone tell you that Win2K migration is easy ... it isn't. BTW,
there are VAST implications for the DNS system, in the new concepts behind
Microsoft Domains, a la Win2K. I'm stunned. A lot of what we're doing may
become moot, if MS has their way.

A point you are making here is somewhat important. I don't believe that
there is a compromise possible. The ICANN couldn't have handled this worse,
if they tried (which I don't believe they did). Also, there is no such thing
as no change. Everything is entropic. If the intensity of a conflict
apprears to remain at the same level, over time, it is actually getting
worse, related to entropy. Something keeps pumping energy into the system.
It is just that the escalation matches the energy loss. What this does is
armor the division (kinda like hardening the arteries). Sooner of later,
something blows.

-----Original Message-----
From: Harald Alvestrand [mailto:Harald@Alvestrand.no]
Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2000 10:01 PM
To: Darrell Greenwood; ga@dnso.org
Subject: Re: [ga] ICANN - CCTLD Fight Growing


At 18:15 01/12/2000 -0800, Darrell Greenwood wrote:
>ICANN - CCTLD FIGHT GROWING
>The BBC provides coverage of the growing dispute between
>ICANN and country code domains, who are unhappy with paying
>large fees for little in return.
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1043000/1043509.stm
>-

so far, I have seen little evidence of the fight growing; it's been the 
same size at least since June.
It is the reporting about it that is growing bigger.
OTOH, I have also seen no real progress. This is bad.

What I'm afraid of is that the newspaper articles will make it harder for 
the participants to back down to a reasonable compromise.


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