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>
>
>
> 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:
>
>  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: 
>
>  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
>
>           By JERI CLAUSING  [Bio]
>
>           Internet Board Asked to Slow Down Policy
>           Vote
>
> [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.
>
> "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.
>
> "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."                
> -------------
>
> 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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