My comments

[Karl Auerbach <karl@CaveBear.com>]

Wow!  I haven't had this much e-mail in my mailbox since I offered to sell
my neighbor's BMW 740 for $500.  ;-)

I've been trying to read the huge number of messages, many of which
contain significant points.  My own opinions and views have been altered
by what I have read and learned.

Rather than posting my own comments to the mailing list, I marked up a
copy of the draft and put it up on the web.

The marked-up copy is:

	http://www.cavebear.com/iahc-comments.html

My comments should appear in red.

In preview:

I have some small complaints:

   - The document (at least the MS word version I downloaded) has no
     section numbers, but there are references to 'em.

   - The very important and much-used .arpa domain is left orphaned.

   - There is no mention of the privacy to be accorded to registration data
     or applications.

   - The 60 day waiting period is too long.

   - NSI is given extremely deferential treatment.
     I believe that the major import of this report, if issued in its
     present form, will be to indirectly grant a permanent continuation
     of NSI's current de-facto monopoly.

   - There are silly requirements (such as the agreement to a particular
     jurisdiction) in the domain name application that SLD applicants must
     file.

But my big complaint has to do with the overpreference it gives to
trademark over human/personal names, corporate names, partnership names,
association names, church names, etc.  I find this imbalance to be unfair.

Anyway, go to http://www.cavebear.com/iahc-comments.html for details.

Overall, I think that the committee members should be congratulated on
their creative and professional work.

And I would hope that the committee accepts my comments as
constructive despite the fact that at this late hour I may have
possibly and inadvertently used less than felicitous language.

		--karl--