RE: Re[6]: [ga] collisions in namespace (was gTLD Constituency)

[Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

> From: William X. Walsh [mailto:william@userfriendly.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 11:14 AM
> 
> Hello Roeland,
> 
> Thursday, April 12, 2001, 11:09:53 AM, Roeland Meyer wrote:
> 
> >> From: William X. Walsh [mailto:william@userfriendly.com]
> >> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 10:52 AM
> >> 
> >> Thursday, April 12, 2001, 9:14:28 AM, Christopher Ambler wrote:
> >> 
> >> > After which three other directors expressed agreement, 
> and then a 
> >> > majority voted to agree with him not one, but FOUR times under
> >> > different wordings.
> >> 
> >> > By any criteria, it stood the test.
> >> 
> >> This is a mischaracterization.  One director had a 
> problem, the others
> >> did not state their reasons, just agreeing with the outcome for
> >> whatever reason.

That is not correct. They stated their issues clearly, in the surrounding
discussion. It took quite a while, as I recall. I was rather impressed with
the way Vint Cerf managed the discussion. There was no doubt, afterward,
what decision was made and why, only in your mind.

> > You weren't there William, Chris is right. Four times, they 
> were asked and
> > they answered the same.
> 
> What were they asked?  They were asked if they wanted to defer
> approval of a .web registry, not specifically if that reason was
> because of the existence of IOD's existing registration system.

Actually, see above, IOD's existing business was EXACTLY the reason it was
defered.
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