[wg-c] Fwd: Re: Comments received

[Javier <javier@aui.es>]

>To: comments-gtlds@dnso.org, Javier <javier@aui.es>
>Cc: wg-c@dnso.org, froomkin@law.miami.edu, brunner@world.std.com
>Subject: Re: Comments received 
>Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 08:33:29 -0400
>From: Eric Brunner <brunner@world.std.com>
>X-Loop-Detect: 1
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>In the event the wg-c listmanager only accepts mail from members, which
>I am not, I trust that the Chair (Javier) will foreward this on to that
>list. In any case, I've addressed this to comments-gtlds as well.
>
>In his recent mail to wg-c, the summary of one of the two public comments
>for wg-c was given as:
>
>	A request for the creation of a "North American Aboriginal"
>	TLD with the TLA "NAA" by Eric Brunner 
>
>A minor correction, the subject line of the submission is:
>
>	Comment to WG_C: Indigenous Requirements of the DNS root
>
>Of course, the one-line summary could be:
>
>	"TLDs for non-colonials, presently one for the North Americas"
>
>I personally don't hold any illusions about the outcome of the request,
>it really is pro forma so that we can later show we made _every_ effort
>to convince every relevant component of ICANN that the existing allocation
>system is prejudicial to, and injurious of, the Abenaki and Siksika, all
>Jay Treaty Tribes, all North American Tribes and pre- and post-Treaty
>Indigenous social and cultural formations in North America.
>
>While some people have suggested one or more human rights perspectives
>on the DNS gTLD/ccTLD issues, the bulk of these have been based upon an
>individualistic conceptions of human rights. I encourage wg_c to keep a
>conception of human rights, not simply profit, as a guiding principle
>in its work, and remind you all that our request is based upon a distinct
>and collective conception of human rights, recognized in the UN Treaty
>System.
>
>Kitakitamatsinopowaw, (I'll see you again (we don't have a "good bye"))
>Eric
>