Re: My comments

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Karl,

  Please read below your comments.

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

  Yea, I was a bit supprised myself.
> 
> 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.

  Mine as well.  I have a problem with the lotery system mainly.
> 
> 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.

  I read them with great intrest.
> 
> 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.

  I noticed that as well.  Same in text.
> 
>    - 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.

  This is of great concern to me as well.  I hope it is ment to be
implied?
> 
>    - The 60 day waiting period is too long.

  I tend to agree.  Dispite the arguments made by some here that this
waiting
period should help to eliminate legal disputes, I must say that 60 days
is 
entirely too long.  Especially sience you must put up $20,000.00 up
front, than
wait for the results of a lottery and ins addition be approved in
accordance 
with the information provided on the necessary filings.

> 
>    - 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.

  Well, NSI has announced they are getting of this business.
> 
>    - There are silly requirements (such as the agreement to a particular
>      jurisdiction) in the domain name application that SLD applicants must
>      file.

  I agree here as well.  Though I believe that most of this information
is
for background.
> 
> 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.

  I also agree with you here as well.  Seems to me the reverse should be
the
case.
> 
> Anyway, go to http://www.cavebear.com/iahc-comments.html for details.

  I hope everyone on this list read's this!


> 
> 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--

Regards,


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Jeffrey A. Williams
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