Re: [ga] New FAQs Posted

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

Hello Chuck,

Quite the contrary.  The seem to CONFIRM the concerns.

Based on this fact alone, Plan B needs to be rejected because it opens
the door to this kind of change in policy which will certainly be
against the best interests of the internet community.


Friday, March 23, 2001, 12:40:20 PM, Gomes, Chuck wrote:

> Considering that there has been a lot of concern expressed on this list
> regarding the changes proposed for the .org registry, for those who are not
> aware, ICANN posted six additional FAQs today, all regarding .org questions:

> http://www.icann.org/melbourne/info-verisign-revisions.htm

> I believe that the answers given may alleviate some peoples' concerns about
> contemplated changes to the .org registry and the .org TLD as related to the
> proposed new agreements with VeriSign.  I think that FAQs #12 and #13 may be
> of particular interest.

> I would also like to respond to a statement in FAQ #11: "Until 1996, Network
> Solutions enforced the restrictions on .org registrations, but due to NSI's
> resource limitations active enforcement of the restrictions was suspended
> early in that year. Since then, the restrictions have been enforced only
> through self-selection."  I happened to be around when the change was made -
> it was made at the recommendation of Jon Postel.  He specifically
> recommended that we quit screening and allow users to self-select their TLD.
> The problem with screening was that there was no meaningful and functional
> way to determine who met the criteria (the same applied to .net) and what
> was happening is that we were rewarding those willing to lie and penalizing
> those who were honest.  To implement any sort of workable screening system
> (if it is even possible on a global scale) at a minimum would have been very
> expensive and would have slowed down service levels significantly.
> Chuck Gomes
> Vice President, Policy & Compliance
> VeriSign Global Registry Services

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