Re: [registrars] Sentate act.

[edyson@edventure.com (Esther Dyson)]

note that it passed only  one house so far......

Esther Dyson

At 08:04 AM 07/08/99 +0900, Robert F. Connelly wrote:
>Dear Colleagues:
>
>Just heard the news that the new anti cybersquatting law passed the U.S. 
>Senate.  This is some kind of speed record for bills before the 
>Senate.  Perhaps Internet time compression *really* works;-}
>
>Regards, BobC
>
>BTW, I was in D.C. from 13 to 17 June --- called on about 15 legislators 
>and/or their aides "on the Hill".
>
>No one mentioned the proposed bill, which was dated 21 June.  Only 
>forty-five days from being "dropped" till it passed, speed of light, 
>methinks:-)  Bills of this type normally take two sessions, well over 365 
>days --- if they make it at all.
>
>
>
>
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>Ulric B. Bray (slightly expurgated)
>


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