"the great CORE meeting in Washington"

[Bob Allisat <bob@wtv.net>]

> From:	Robert Cannon [SMTP:cannon@DC.NET]
> Sent:	Friday, January 23, 1998 3:12 AM
> Subject:	CORE Stalls Pending Magaziner Report
> 
> CORE (the group running the Internet Society's [ISOC] DNS plan) decided
> to hold its meeting in Washington DC this week and have a dog and pony
> show (self-described) for Congress, Magaziner, and the Press.  I just
> came from what was supposed to be an all day event.  It is clear that
> CORE is stalling pending the outcome of the Magaziner report.  And well
> it should.  One news report indicated that Magaziner was going to
> recommend that CORE get only one new TLD, not seven.  Net Fusion is
> today reporting that Magaziner is going to recommend against the CORE
> altogether and recommend that the feds set up a non-profit to run the
> DNS.
> Anyway, about the meeting.  The CORE meeting for Congress started one
> hour late.  Why?  Because the people who want to run our DNS system
> could not get their laptops running correctly.  Having worked out the
> technical glitches, they started with no agenda.  Maher got up and said
> that he was not going to tell what the agenda was for the day long
> meeting since we already knew what it would be (this is sort of
> consistent with Shaw's comment that the IAHC was an open process cause
> they talked to lots of people).  When the ISOC staff in the hallway were
> asked what that meant, no one knew.  They didnt know who was speaking
> and or what would be said.
> Maher (Chairman of CORE who happens to be the trademark attorney for
> McDonalds - anyone smell conflict of interests, or at least a lot of
> bias?) and Robert Shaw got up, complimented each other, made fun of
> those who criticized them, and proceeding to inform the audience of the
> past ten years of DNS history - almost nothing about the present.  Maher
> did say that CORE had met with Magaziner all week long but he wasnt
> going to tell us what was said.  He didnt know when the Magaziner report
> was coming out.  He didnt know when the NSI contract would expire.  He
> didnt know when they were going on line.  He didnt know how many TLDs
> they would in fact have.  He would say what they talked about with
> Magaziner or what Magaziner said to them.  And he wasnt telling what was
> taking place at the current CORE meeting.
> So what did they say?  The TLD ".store" will be replaced by ".shop"
> That's it.  That's news from the great CORE meeting in Washington.

 'Nuf said.

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 Bob Allisat

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