----- Original Message ----- > From: brun...@nic-naa.net > howdy all from a cold room 100km north of the equator. > > > ... > > That's an *amazingly* oblique and de minimis reference to the topic > > on point, couched in Eric's usually opaque language ... > > ... > > i'm reading this from the meeting room where the generic names supporting > organization council is meeting (saturday is gnso policy day), in what > i've heard is disneyland with a death penalty. > > two things i think "of note" have occured in the past week+: > > 1. the deparment of commerce summarized (first round!) notice and > comment period (see the apa or ask an admin practitioner near you or read fox, > a worthwhile activity in its own right -- google "+fox > +administrative-law") on the iana function contract, and > > 2. the department of justice responded to the department of commerce > request for guidance on competition policy issues and the icann board > resolution of november last to end structural separation in the competitive > market created through the competitive registrar testbed in 2000. > > i read each as notice from the usg that the drift, or direction, > depending on one's point of view, of a 501(c)(3) to which rule making may have > been delegated, is subject to correction. > > so did anyone have a question or is my epistolary stylistic genius > sufficient as topic of general interest?
... and he talked for 45 minutes, and no one understood a word that he said. :-) I *think* you're saying that the USG may decide that it wants to piss the world off even further, by deciding that it's made a mistake delegating things to ICANN, and *taking them back*; is that roughly where you're going? Cheers, -- jr 'anyotherkindathing you got to say pertaining to and about the crime 'a -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274
