Re: [ga] .ORG Names

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 04:08:22PM +1300, Joop Teernstra wrote:
> Sorry, but this comes from a world where black is white and white is black.
> So far, the position of the Board (further confused by the press statements
> from Mike Roberts) has not been made clear.

You are imagining black helicopters.  In fact, things are much simpler:
the position of the Board has not been made clear because the board
doesn't know yet what it's position is. 

> It seems that Verisign "expects" that ICANN makes .org strictly
> non-commercial. Is there a quid pro quo somewhere?

Doubtful in the extreme.  I don't think vsgn is overly concerned about 
what happens to .org, and I am pretty sure that the only reasons that 
there was any mention of .org being non-commercial was because 1) that 
is an implication of rfc1591, and 2) the people doing the negotiating 
thought that is what the internet community would want.


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Kent Crispin                               "Be good, and you will be
kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain
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