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GA-DIGEST          Friday, November 15 2002          Volume 01 : Number 1506

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Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:55:29 +0100
From: Vittorio Bertola <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: [ga] FYI: Amsterdam registration and agenda

On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 09:40:14 +0100, you wrote:

>>Pre-registration is now open for ICANN's 2002 Annual Meeting, to 
>>be held on 14 and 15 December 2002 at the Sheraton Amsterdam Airport 
>>Hotel & Conference Center at Schiphol (Amsterdam) Airport, the 
>>Netherlands. We request that those planning to attend pre-register 
>>to help us in planning for the meeting.

Yes, and apparently some degree of magic was necessary to be the first
to pre-register:

http://register.icann.org/cgi/amsterdam_attendees.cgi

>Pre-Registered Attendees 
>
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>   	  Name        Badge Name    Affiliation    Country  
>  1   Harry Potter   Harry Potter   Hogwarts 	   England 
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Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:00:27 -0300
From: Patricio Poblete <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: [ga] FYI: Amsterdam registration and agenda

Hmmm... interesting... and Harry is not the only fictitious
character in the list! :-)

Patricio Poblete

On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 10:55:29AM +0100, Vittorio Bertola wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 09:40:14 +0100, you wrote:
> 
> >>Pre-registration is now open for ICANN's 2002 Annual Meeting, to 
> >>be held on 14 and 15 December 2002 at the Sheraton Amsterdam Airport 
> >>Hotel & Conference Center at Schiphol (Amsterdam) Airport, the 
> >>Netherlands. We request that those planning to attend pre-register 
> >>to help us in planning for the meeting.
> 
> Yes, and apparently some degree of magic was necessary to be the first
> to pre-register:
> 
> http://register.icann.org/cgi/amsterdam_attendees.cgi
> 
> >Pre-Registered Attendees 
> >
> >--------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >   	  Name        Badge Name    Affiliation    Country  
> >  1   Harry Potter   Harry Potter   Hogwarts 	   England 
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Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 17:26:48 +0100
From: Thomas Roessler <[email-masked]>
Subject: [ga] State of Task Forces: WHOIS, Transfers, UDRP

FYI, a brief summary of the state of some of the "old" task forces.

CC to Bruce Tonkin, J Scott Evans, and Marilyn Cade - please correct 
me in public if I have misunderstood anything. ;-)

1. WHOIS (Kristy McKee, Abel Wisman, myself; chairs: M. Cade, T. 
   Harris)

The WHOIS task force will try to produce a report for the Names  
Council by the week of November 24.  The report's aim will be to  
reap some of the "low-hanging fruits"; the task force's work will,  
for this reason, concentrate on items (1) and [possibly] (4), i.e.,  
accuracy of whois data, and bulk access/resale of data.  In addition 
to that, the Task Force will report on its recommendations for  
further action (including outreach) and on its current findings 
(comments received, ...) as far as other policy items and mid to 
long-term perspectives for accuracy and bulk access/resale are 
concerned. A Names Council vote is expected for the Council's 
Amsterdam conference on December 14.

2. Transfers (Dan Steinberg; chair: M. Cade)

The Transfers Task Force is also scheduled to produce a report for 
the NC by the week of November 24, which will also be on the agenda 
for the Council's Amsterdam conference.

3. UDRP (John Berryhill; chair: J. Scott Evans)

As J. Scott Evans has reported during today's Names Council  
telephone conference, he is suggesting to apply a modified version  
of the GNSO policy-development process to the UDRP Task Force's  
future work.  A conference call is scheduled for Tuesday, November  
19, 1500 UTC. J. Scott has been working through existing literature  
evaluating and criticizing the UDRP.  A preliminary report which is  
supposed to take into account that outside work is expected for late 
December.  The Task Force is currently seeking a new "complainant  
representative", and replacing some members who are not able to  
continue to participate on the task force due to personal and  
profession al changes.  Also, at it's telephone conference today, 
the Names Council has resolved to augment the task force by provider 
and panelist representatives from an (from the?) Asian dispute  
resolution provider.  The respondent's point of view is being  
represented by John Berryhill.

4. New gTLDs

As far as the new gTLD proposal from Stuart Lynn is concerned (which 
recommends that the Names Council looks at whether or not some  
apriori structure be imposed on new gTLDs), the Names Council  
expects to respond to a future board inquiry, possibly to be  
received in or after Amsterdam.  Since there seems to be no  
expectation of a formal policy-development process being launched,  
the Council could ask the constituencies for positions which would  
subsequently be discussed on the Names Council level.

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Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 17:40:43 +0100
From: "DNSO SECRETARIAT" <[email-masked]>
Subject: [ga] NC teleconf. November 14, MP3 recording 

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Please find the MP3 recording of the November 14, 2002, Names Council
teleconference at the following url:
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/mp3/20021114.NCteleconf.mp3

Happy listening!

DNSO Secretariat

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Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:07:25 -0800 (PST)
From: Rick Wesson <[email-masked]>
Subject: [ga] orwell's 1984 was only off by 20 years

read this one http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/14/opinion/14SAFI.html

If this doesn't make privacy in electronic relms an issue I don't know
what will.The funny thing is the DoD could always purchase the data or
hire some one else to purchase the data.

Alice's Registry will soon start taking US cash for services ;-)

- -rick

WASHINGTON - If the Homeland Security Act is not amended before passage,
here is what will happen to you:

Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine subscription
you buy and medical prescription you fill, every Web site you visit and
e-mail you send or receive, every academic grade you receive, every bank
deposit you make, every trip you book and every event you attend - all
these transactions and communications will go into what the Defense
Department describes as "a virtual, centralized grand database."

...

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Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 19:35:01 +0100
From: Thomas Roessler <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: [ga] State of Task Forces: WHOIS, Transfers, UDRP

On 2002-11-14 17:26:48 +0100, Thomas Roessler wrote:

>3. UDRP (John Berryhill; chair: J. Scott Evans)

A correction is in order.

Dan Steinberg is representing the GA on this task force.  John  
Berryhill takes the /dedicated/ /role/ of representing the 
perspective of respondents.

See also the terms of reference of the UDRP TF at  
<http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/2001.NC-tor-UDRP-Review-Evaluation.html>, 
and the (original) membership list at  
<http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/nc-udrp/Arc00/msg00000.html>.

Apologies,
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Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 14:29:05 -0800
From: Bret Fausett <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: [ga] FYI: Amsterdam registration and agenda

Is anyone aware of any meetings prior to the 14th, or will this simply be a
two-day session start to finish?

      -- Bret

> The preliminary schedule is as follows:
> Saturday, 14 December 2002
> Sunday, 15 December 2002

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Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 18:10:01 -0500
From: "Neuman, Jeff" <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: [ga] FYI: Amsterdam registration and agenda

Rumor has it that the NC will meet the morning of the 14th.

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To: DNSO General Assembly
Subject: Re: [ga] FYI: Amsterdam registration and agenda

Is anyone aware of any meetings prior to the 14th, or will this simply be a
two-day session start to finish?

      -- Bret

> The preliminary schedule is as follows:
> Saturday, 14 December 2002
> Sunday, 15 December 2002

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Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 11:05:03 -0800
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Re: Long term registrations - Was: RE: [ga] Fwd: LACTLD comments on Zone  Transfers

You know this looks really good.
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Karl Auerbach wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Steven Heath wrote:
>
> > Now, Karl comments on a OTF of $25 and "particularly if updates were paid
> > for on a per-occurrence fee schedule.".
> >
> > My opinion is any fee that is based on the registrant, or their agent, being
> > charged to update details would result in lower quality of data compared to
> > the a fee based on unlimited changes being allowed. Lower quality is not a
> > good thing.
>
> If someone doesn't bother to update their list of DNS servers, eventually
> their domain becomes unusable, so there is more than a bit of
> self-interest in keeping things up to date.  (Not updating one's DNS
> delegation information is sort of like not putting oil into your airplane
> motor - yes, you can skip it, but eventually bad things happen.)
>
> As for whois data - I personally have yet to see what I believe to be a
> compelling argument why the generic "I" should be required to publish "my"
> personally identifiable information for the generic "your" convenience.
>
> If we assume the challange mechanism I posited in a previous message, if
> contact information is bad, and someone pays the registry to perform a
> challange operation, and no reply is received in response, then losing the
> registration is kind of a rather strong incentive for folks to make sure
> that the registry has up-to-date contact information.
>
> (Notice that in the challange mechanism that I propose, the name and
> contact information of the registrant is not made available to the
> challanger.)
>
>                 --karl--
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