announcing Jan 2001 COOK report contents & distribution list for cook report monthly summaries

[Gordon Cook <cook () cookreport com>]

Announcing a distribution list for the monthly free summary of the 
COOK Report on Internet.  You should expect to receive the monthly 
summary that is usually between 7 and 15 thousand characters long. 
You may get one or two other messages a month.  This list is intended 
for distribution and not discussion.  Anything posted to the list 
will bounce to me. I regard this as an experiment and reserve the 
right at my discretion to change list policy.

The list name is Cookrepsum standing for Cook Report Summary. You may 
subscribe yourselves by sending a message to majordomo () compucomis net 
with 'subscribe cookrepsum' in the body.   To unsubscribe send mail 
to majordomo () compucomis net with 'unsubscribe cookrepsum" in the body 
The who command is disabled to preserve privacy.  Thanks to Michael 
Burger at compucomis.net for lending the use of his facilities.

I will send the full summary out late in the day Thursday the 16th. 
To receive this and future summaries please follow the major domo 
sign up instructions for  cookrepsum () compucomis net above.


********************************
The COOK Report on Internet January 2001 (Vol.9, No. 10)
********************************

CONTENTS

Packet Design Has Unique Research Role
Seeks Improved Routing to Offset Problems Inherent in MPLS
Judy Estrin, Kathie Nichols, Van Jacobson Want Cost Benefits of 
Convergence By Leveraging Strengths of TCP/IP Architecture	pp. 
1-7

Scaling the Internet via Exchange Points
Many Players Jumping into Rapidly Expanding Global Market
Technology and Business Model Issues as Seen By Equinix  pp. 8 - 15

ITU and IETF in Agreement on ENUM Administration 
Letter from ITU to ICANN Blocks .tel gTLD Applications As Competition 
to ENUM -- Administration Modeled on Neutral Tier 1 Database Holder 
of Pointers to Records of Provisioned Services		pp. 16 -17

Is-Is Bug Causes UUNET Route Flap pp. 18-19

ICANN Having No Authority to Create New gTLDs Lacks Legitimacy in US 
and Is Increasingly Rejected in Europe
Dixon Explains How .eu Has Been Kept from Icann Control, pp. 20-21

DNRC Letter Documents ICANN Past Testimony to Show Duplicity Behind 
So Called Clean Sheet Study of Public Board Members  	pp. 21 - 22

Executive Summary,              pp. 22 - 24

--

****************************************************************
The COOK Report on Internet, 431 Greenway Ave, Ewing, NJ 08618 USA
(609) 882-2572 (phone & fax) cook () cookreport com   Index to 9 years
 of the COOK  Report at http://cookreport.com   Why ICANN is illegal.
See  5 page version at  http://cookreport.com/illegal.shtml and 168 page
version at http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/icann.pdf
****************************************************************