Re: offcial notices

[Vince Wolodkin <wolodkin@digitalink.com>]

I absolutely agree with everything you said.  Just two points.  The 60
days I referred to was in the hopes that courts could be eeventually
brought to recognize that challenges not made in the first 60 days
should be considered moot.  I don't know if this is viable which is why
I think in the next paragraph I asked for input from any lawyers out
there.

I also never believed that domain additions should be in printed form,
but I still firmly believe that we will gain much greater acceptance if
we at least try getting a notice run regularly in major business
publications and encouraging local gazettes to include a prefab notice
with pointers to a URL.  After all, there must be some reason that
governments still do this on paper.  Could it be that only a small
percentage of the world's population actually have access to the
internet?  Maybe.

Vince Wolodkin

Michael Dillon wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 29 Dec 1996, Vince Wolodkin wrote:
> 
> > I didn't make myself clear.  My 60 day period is NOT a waiting period.
> > The applicant gets the domain from day one.  I indicated a 60 day
> > publication period,
> 
> There is no such thing as a 60-day publication period. Once something has
> been published it is published forever.
> 
> > Also, you cannot prod the legal and business world away
> > from print notices.  Not everyone has internet access, but there are
> > accepted standards for public notification using the standard press.  I
> > don't believe these standards exist for internet publication.  I doubt
> > seriously that the internet is anywhere near ready to supplant the
> > printed page.  Not even close.
> 
> In the case of a notice that a new domain name has been created, the
> Internet is the only logical place to publish such a notice. Paper is
> totally unneccesary.
> 
> Many of you may not be aware that many governments publish a daily listing
> of activities often called a "gazette". This includes things like new
> incorporations, corporate name changes, corporations being struck from the
> register, divorces, people who have changed their names, judgements in
> small claims court and similar things.
> 
> There is no reason why CORE could not publish a similar daily register.
> It would contain notices of new domain names created, changes to domain
> name information, and domain names removed. The gazette could be published
> as a plain text file in a format that can be unambigously parsed by
> machine so that anyone who wishes can treat it as a stream of transactions
> to update their own private copy of the domain names database which they
> can use to do their own searches.
> 
> Publications on paper have three key characteristics that must be
> maintained.
> 
> 1. They are public. This means that the daily gazette must be available
>    to anyone without restriction.
> 
> 2. One can subscribe to a publication and it will be sent to you. This
>    can be achieved by setting up a mailing list and emailing the gazette
>    to all subscribers every day. Since the information is public, anyone
>    can reformat the info to something that looks more pleasing to
>    humans and publish a paper version. But the official version will
>    remain the original text file.
> 
> 3. One can look up back issues of a publication in a reference library
>    or obtain copies as they are published by asking a magazine seller
>    for them. This can be achieved by making the same daily gazette
>    text file availble at a website. If the URL is predictable
>    such as http://www.iahc.org/gazette/1997/0122.txt then a person
>    can easily request a back issue or even the current day's issue.
>    No doubt some people will wish to build their own tools that request
>    the daily gazette via the web URL rather than wait for the email
>    version to show up.
> 
> Note that all these publication methods share one single overriding
> characteristic. Once the material is published, it is published forever.
> I suppose the website maintainers could diligently delete the gazette
> files after 60 days but I can see no purpose behind this since it would
> only mean that others who received copies of the gazette files would make
> them available on their own websites.
> 
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