IAHC Self-Immolation (Re: Expansion of the IAHC)

[tor@wtv.net (Bob Allisat)]

Perry E. Metzger frothed:
>Anyway, I'm sure you'll have plenty more to say on this, but just as a
>warning, I'm not replying to the thread any more. So far as I know,
>the IAHC isn't changing composition in the near future, and talk about
>that, or whether the IAHC should exist, or whether I have three heads,
>or anything else like that, isn't productive. The current IAHC is in
>place and is not going to dissolve itself or add enough members to
>turn into the U.N. general assembly. Thats pretty much a set fact.
>Given this, all discussion along those lines is pretty much pointless.
>
>The IAHC going to be deliberating and coming to a decision within a
>short time. If you want input into the decision, this is the place for
>discussing that. If you spend your time trying to make sure that the
>decisions are ones you like and can live with, I suspect you will be
>happier with the outcome than if you spend your time trying to
>convince the IAHC to commit mass suicide at dawn at or similar
>pointless noise.
>
>
>Perry
>Speaking for myself, not for the IAHC in an official capacity, but I
>suspect other IAHC members agree with me on this.


 Mr. Metzger is and isn't speaking
 for the IAHC? He is, however, informing
 us that he will no longer respond to
 input that has demanded a widening
 of IAHC membership. And this demand
 has come from numerous participants.

 I suggest Metzger's attitude will
 lead to this Ad Hoq Committee losing
 all credibility ruining any chance
 at all for a solution in this forum.
 We'll all have to pull up our stakes
 and move on to elsewhere while Mr.
 Metzger and company perform ritual
 self-immolation by iTLD like the
 iiia and Wesson ar.com lists did
 before this one.

> - 2 Alternic Representatives
> - 2 Electronic Civil Liberties Representatives
> - 2 Other International Organization Representatives
> - 10 Representatives from Democratically elected Governments
>
> These people in a fully public
> process would draft these details:
>
>        - First Come First Served.
>        - Low or No fees.
>        - Recognize existing claims.
>        - Delimit New Top Level Domain Names.
>        - Establish attainable technical standards
>        - Back off and let us to it.

                             Bob Allisat

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