IP: NY Times - Internet Board Asked to Slow Down Policy Vote

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

>[ Note from djf: the petition points out clearly that the Interum Board was not formed to make such major decisions but  rather to create the real ICANN which could and would but also be represenative rather than appointed by some magic method. Esthers quote if accurate seems to be in direct conflict with the charter of the Interum Board]




>Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 12:04:38 -0400
>From: "Nick Lordi" <nlj@research.telcordia.com>
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>Hi Dave,
>
>FYI the attached article from the NY Times "Internet Board Asked to 
>Slow Down Policy Vote" refers to the petition.
>The article is at:
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>  http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/05/cyber/articles/18capital.html
>
>It would have been nice, however, if the article cited the URL for the 
>petition, and/or gotten a quote from some of those who signed the
>petition.  The ICANN process of burying comments in a threaded list
>also makes it difficult to find the petition at ICANN's web site.
>FWIW, two URLs to the petition are: 
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>  http://www.icann.org/comments-mail/comment-ip/msg00020.html
>  http://www.domainhandbook.com/petition-0599.html
>
>And thank you for signing the petition :-)
>
>Nick
>
>--
>Nick Lordi
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>           May 18, 1999
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>           By JERI CLAUSING  [Bio]
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>           Internet Board Asked to Slow Down Policy
>           Vote
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>[W] ASHINGTON -- As the Internet's new governing organization prepares for its third board meeting, a looming question remains over whether it will adopt controversial new rules to combat cybersquatting and resolve domain name disputes.
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>"We don't know what we're   ------------- going to do," Esther Dyson, interim chairman of  Governance the Internet Corporation    [*] for Assigned Names and Numbers, said Monday.
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>"Honestly, we're paying attention to people telling us to do nothing, and we're paying attention to people telling us to do something. We're waiting to hear all the public comments before we decide what to do."                -------------
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>Last week, a group of noted Internet technologists, lawyers, policy analysts and service providers submitted a petition to the ICANN board, asking that they not rush to adopt the recommendations in a report from the World Intellectual Property Organization, an arm of the United Nations.

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