RE: [wg-c] Unofficial report on L.A. meeting

["Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

Would you like to explain ... in English?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-wg-c@dnso.org [mailto:owner-wg-c@dnso.org]On 
> Behalf Of Eric
> Brunner
> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 10:27 PM
> To: wg-c@dnso.org
> Subject: Re: [wg-c] Unofficial report on L.A. meeting
> 
> 
> > An agreement did emerge from the first meeting. We realized that
> > the consensus on adding 6-10 new TLDs as a testbed provided a
> > basis for drafting specific implementation proposals for the
> > testbed period.
> 
> This must come as a profound disapointment for the co-signers of
> position paper B, who carefully rejected consensus on this very
> point.
> 
> >                  In other words, our task now is to propose,
> > define, and discuss specific implementations of 6-10 that can
> > gather widespread support among the endorsers of the different
> > position papers.
> 
> This is a surprising about face for someone who only on Monday
> described this very activity as a "game" he wouldn't play.
> 
> How can one reconcile the free market absolutism of pre-LA rhetoric 
> with pre-market constraint? As an exercise in intellectual gymnastics
> it may be interesting, but I suspect only of serious interest to
> those who bought the initial rationale.
> 
> Cheers,
> Eric
>