Re: gTLD-MoU News (December 10, 1997)

[Jay@Iperdome.com]

At 04:19 PM 12/10/97 -0800, Ellen Rony wrote:
>Robert Shaw wrote:
>>December 8, 1997: An index of submissions made to Notice-97-03:
>>"Proposed Trademark Dispute Resolution: Draft Substantive Guidelines
>>for Administrative Domain Name Challenge Panels" is now available
>______________________________________________
>Apparently the comments I sent to both the iPOC and to Mr. Tramposch
>didn't get posted. Perhaps someone on this list who is a member of CORE or
>PAB can add these e-mail exchanges to the index for those who wish are
>tracking the ACP proposal.
>
>Private messages from Albert Tramposch are posted here with his permission.
<snip>
>I am not a signatory to the gTLD-Mou (or even the stop-gTLD-MOU) and thus
>am not a member of iPOC, PAB, CORE,or, for that matter,ISOC, INTA, IANA,
>WIPO, NTIA, ITU, FNC, NSF, ISI, SRI....and the list goes on and on.  But I
>am a member of the Internet community, and it is statements like that on
>slide #12, which seem to have emerged from the ether, that make people like
>me really question the gTLD- MoU definition of "rough consensus".


To summarize, the proposed Internet governance over root 
as defined by the gTLD-MoU/POC/PAB/CORE/IANA/ISOC/WIPO/ITU
offers Netizens the following features:
   -   Closed meetings without minutes
   -   Decisions that appear from the ether
   -   Valid comments that never appear in the archives.


Regards,

Jay Fenello
President, Iperdome, Inc.  
404-250-3242  http://www.iperdome.com