Re: [ga] IDNO -- This affects you.

["William S. Lovell" <wsl@cerebalaw.com>]

Patrick Greenwell wrote:

> On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, William S. Lovell wrote:
>
> > It is a matter of power, and if one wants to see irony, here
> > it is: the original "technocrats" I would assume were selected
> > on the basis of their technical expertise,
>
> No, they were not, as the vast majority of the interim board was
> completely(or near completely) technology ignorant with respects to the
> DNS system. According to all the reports I recollect seeing the board was
> selected precisely due to this ignorance, or more precisely ignorance of
> the players/politics in the space.

Yes, I've heard that quite a few times before, and in quoting Amadeu, as
I re-read what I wrote it would seem to give rather more of an impression
that I was fully buying into what he said than I really intended. But what
credence can be given to his explanation of why no thought was given to
including an SO or whatever for individuals?  That is, they had no technical
functions to perform hence they needed no representation?

And back to the first issue, it was not my intent in referring to "technical
expertise" to include the DNS, but only protocols and wiring and all that
good hardware/software engineering bag.  If it was the intent to haul in
DNS ignoramuses as "dupes," what was the motive? And who did it?
And for what purpose? To sandbag through a system as fully favorable
to Network Solutions as possible? Hmm???

Bill Lovell

Bill


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The URLs for Best Practices:
DNSO Citation:
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/gaindex.html
(Under "Other Information Documents"; "August 2001:
Proposal for Best Practices for the DNSO GA." This
page also includes much else about the DNSO.)
Part I:
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20010813.GA-BestPractices.html
Part II:
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20010813.GA-BP-flowchart.pdf
(Access to the .pdf file requires the Adobe Acrobat Reader,
available for free down load at
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.)
Part III:
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20010813.GA-BP-PartIII.html


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