Re: [ga-roots] MOTION - Consensus-Based Policy on Alt Roots

[Craig Simon <cls@flywheel.com>]

I second Harald's motion to amend the motion 
	(presuming he needs a second)

Craig Simon

Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
> 
> Motion to amend motion.
> 
> Note that debate in the GA can only affect GA statements. Thus, the
> statement should be formulated as a request to the Names Council to propose
> a policy to the ICANN BoD.
> 
> In addition, I (like William) think that this statement does not say what
> the majority of the GA wants it to say. I could be wrong about the majority....
> 
> Amended motion.
> 
> "The DNSO GA recommends that the DNSO NC recommend to the ICANN BoD the
> following policy statement:
> 
> ------
> ICANN administers a set of "root" servers that conform to the DNS protocol
> as standardized by the IETF, serving a namespace hereafter referred to as
> the "ICANN namespace".
> 
> Recognizing the need for an unique namespace at the root of the DNS as
> specified in RFC 2826, ICANN reaffirms that it will not initiate services
> where root servers under ICANN control will return different answers for
> the same domain name; ICANN will operate only one namespace.
> 
> Recognizing that there is an urgent request for the addition of names to this
> namespace, ICANN has started establishing procedures for such additions,
> the first of which are scheduled to be added in 2001.
> 
> ICANN recognizes that there are other name spaces served by organizations
> unrelated to ICANN, for purposes other than serving as the traditional
> DNS root.
> 
> Where the operators of other name spaces are selling services to others,
> ICANN urges the operators of those name spaces to take one or both of two
> steps:
> 
> - Make it clear to their customers that these name spaces are unaffiliated
>    with the ICANN namespace in any way. One effective means of doing this
>    is to not include any reference to names registered in the ICANN
>    namespace (such as .com).
> 
> - If there are names in their namespace that they wish to have added to
>    the ICANN namespace, follow the procedures for applying for such names
>    as soon as such procedures are reopened following the evaluation of the
>    first round of additions.
> 
> ---------
> 
> The logic should be obvious - make clear that the other namespaces are
> REALLY unaffiliated, and must sink or swim on their own.
> 
>         Harald, who believes in explicit policies.....
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