Re: [wg-c] voting on TLDs

["A.M. Rutkowski" <amr@netmagic.com>]

At 12:21 PM 3/13/2000, Kevin J. Connolly wrote:
>As you have done before, you simply make it up as you go.
>I was present in the room when Becky Burr and Ira Magaziner
>originally floated, and then refined, the NewCo proposal.
>The administration's "discomfort" at the role of the ITU is a fiction,
>created by the organizations that were fronting for the
>trademark community when the GTLD-MoU underwent its hatchet
>job.  The relationship between the ITU and the GTLD-MOU was
>handled as a diplomatic manner, and, in the best traditions of
>international relations, a means was found to accommodated all
>parties.  Then the trademark community emerged with an
>agenda which was shamelessly devoted to the destruction of the
>GTLD-MoU and the prevention of new GTLDs ever being added
>to the root.  To continue to foist the "ITU-Discomfort" scenario is to 
>continue to legitimate the greed of the trademark community.

Milton is exactly correct, and the actions taken at that
time had little to do with the trademark community.  It
had everything to do with US positions regarding the ITU
that have been relatively long-standing - for the
past 150 years.  If anyone needs to refresh their memory,
they can reference a timeline at:
http://www.wia.org/pub/dns_governance_timeline.gif
the powerpoint version with URLs is at:
http://www.wia.org/pub/dns_governance_Timeline.zip

See also:
http://www.wia.org/pub/dns-brief.html
http://www.wia.org/pub/itu-cl62-amr-response.html

--tony

ps.  If you think that the ITU General Secretariat is through
trolling for Internet turf, check out its new press release
http://www.itu.int/newsroom/press/releases/2000/02.html