Re: The Price Of Admission. Unacceptable.

[Jim Dixon <jdd@matthew.uk1.vbc.net>]

On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Kent Crispin wrote:

> > (hopefully with principle f fixed), but others don't want the change. If
> > this change does happen, then several hundred people could join PAB and
> > demand a fundamental change in policy, without having signed the MoU.
> 
> This is, in my opinion, a waste of time.  You can sign the MoU with a 
> caveat that you have problems with section f, and the rest of it is 
> really pretty vanilla.

The vanilla has some interesting bits, such as

*	a permanent role for the ITU, WIPO, and INTA
*	a permanent role and second vote for the "depository of
	the MOU" .... hmmm, that's the ITU again!
*	but no representation at all for ISPs, without whose 
	networks there would be no Internet 

In fact by agreeing to the MOU you agree to the whole ramshackle 
gTLD MOU structure.  This is not just vanilla.

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