Re[4]: [ga-roots] Re: ICANN Policy -- revised version

["William X. Walsh" <william@userfriendly.com>]

Hello NameCritic,

Saturday, June 16, 2001, 1:38:09 AM, NameCritic wrote:
> Hmmm. Since in an earlier email you stated you do not believe that .web has
> any claim to existance in the OTAR, I can't help but ask then, minus that
> supposed IANA thing you disagree with for dot web, what exactly makes these
> two so different?

I'm saying that I do not believe the IANA issue to be sufficient cause
to give them some recognition.

BUT, I am saying that the IANA issue IS sufficiently in conflict to
make IOD's situation absolutely unique WRT to alt.roots, and to use
the deference IOD received on .web as a basis for claiming other
alt.root TLDs should receive deference is absurd.

While I don't agree with the decision to give them the deference, the
did get it.  However, to say that the same reasoning for IOD's
deference applies to other alt.root TLDs is faulty.

IOD didn't start .web intending it to be in the alt.roots (at least
that's their side of it, and the claim is a plausible one).  Obviously
Cerf felt the issues were sufficiently murky that a deference should
be given.

As I said, I've noticed IOD distancing itself from the alt.root
community, in a big way.  While I have no inside information, I'n
guessing that this is intentional on their part, to continue to draw
focus to the fact that their claim to .web is based on an entirely
different principle than the alt.root TLD operators base their claims
on.

ICANN can grant a deference to IOD without setting a precedent for how
it handles alt.root TLDs.

> Can you clarify this for us William? Does 2 + 2 = 5?

Only when you take my words out of context, Chris.



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