Re[6]: [ga] GA position on Verisign contract

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

Hello Roberto,

Monday, March 26, 2001, 11:04:47 AM, Roberto Gaetano wrote:

> William,

>>
>>I don't see it as representative of the consensus of the GA.
>>
>>It implies that the GA thinks a change in the policy for .org IS
>>something that should be considered provided that existing registrants
>>aren't required to give up their names.

> Maybe my perception of the consensus has been wrong, but what I have 
> registered is a lot of people that were complaining about the possibility 
> that current .org registrations could have been evicted, but not a lot of 
> people clearly affirming that the charter of .org shall not be changed.
> Moreover, the very fact that people are expressing their worries about the 
> eviction from .org *implies* that they estimate possible that a charter can 
> be enforced.

I've tried to find those messages, and found only one that says they
were concerned about just the issue of existing .org holders losing
their names compared to all of the others that opposed any change in
the charter.

>>
>>I haven't seen any such consensus here on that, nor do I think that
>>statement is appropriate or reflective of the sense of the GA.

> Nowhere I said that there was consensus on changing the charter.
> I only stated that, should the charter be changed, there's consensus that 
> the current bona-fide registrations be kept.
> In all fairness, this is what I understood.

No, but it implies that the GA thinks that a change in the charter
would be something that should be considered (not that it should be
changed, but that it even warrants consideration) rather than the out
and out statement that such a change should not even be open for
consideration.

> Nevertheless, we are now discussing just the VeriSign contract: there will 
> still be time to discuss explicitely about the possibility of a new charter 
> for .org,

Really, Roberto, are you so naive to think that if Option B goes ahead
and the changes .org were not an implied part of the deal with
Verisign, even if that's not what is on the papers themselves?



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Best regards,
 William                            mailto:william@userfriendly.com


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