Re: xTLD BoF and mailinglist

[Patrik Fältström <paf@swip.net>]

At 18:45 1998-02-06 +0900, Toru Takahashi wrote:
>I expect Mr. Patrik Faelstoroem(member of POC) to join and speak about whole 
>situation of CORE/POC.

That is correct.

>Are there any reports or comments? 

As of today, POC and CORE are still working as if nothing has happened
(almost). POC is though communicating with mr Magaziner and others
responsible for the green paper to see if there is a way of getting some
common understanding of the problems surrounding the gTLDs. We especially
are pointing out the problems they will have because of  the lack of
details in their paper.

We also see that Jon Postel and IANA have a firm support from people in the
IETF and on the Internet arena, and that support IS important regardless
what happens. I will encourage people to, whatever the solution will be at
the end of this discussion, support IANA and the Internet principles which
so far has ruled, so mr Magaziner understands that he can not "just"
descide what should happen. Especially we which are not US-based companies
must be a bit worried that the US Government tries to (still) control the
Internet which they seem to think is not international, but belong to the US.

To conclude, discussions are going on, and those discussions are built on a
foundation of arguments that the Internet and especially IANA do have firsm
support from the Internet community. Because of that, this is maybe more a
request for support from people than a description of what is happening. Do
not be afraid of sending mail to mr Magaziner being worried about the
change in how Internet is developed, and how the Internet suddenly becomes
a question for the USG.

    Patrik


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