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

[Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org>]

On 2001-06-20 13:32:51 -0700, M. Stuart Lynn wrote:

>What it in effect said is that it would be erroneous for any 
>alternate (pseudo or otherwise) root operator to *assume* that 
>ICANN would necessarily avoid doing so. What the draft effectively 
>says is that ICANN's orderly decision process (always, of course, 
>subject to improvement) operating within its public trust would 
>not be preempted by actions taken by others operating outside of 
>the public trust. That is, do not assume that by creating a TLD 
>within an alternate root, you receive credit with ICANN's own 
>processes and can thereby tie ICANN's hands.

>To put it another way. ICANN has no policy asserting that it will 
>give credit to any TLD created outside of ICANN's processes. Which 
>means precisely that ICANN can give no credit to any TLD created 
>outside of ICANN's processes. Which is what I wrote.

Thanks for putting this so clearly.  There is hardly any objection 
one could make against this.

It would be great if your draft would be as clear (and short ;-) as 
the two paragraphs quoted above.


"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time 
to make it shorter." -- Blaise Pascal


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