RE: [alac] Agenda planning for ALAC's dinner with the Board

["Sebastian Ricciardi" <sricciardi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Actually, we saw a fair amount of interest at the meeting in Canada last
week.  But wonderful though Canada is, it's only 10% of North America and I
agree that the interest in the other 90% just isn't there."

I cant understand why an inteligent person like you made such an argument.
Needles to say, you´re completely wrong.

I am sure we will have the time to discuss this during the meeting.

Best,

S.



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De: owner-alac@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-alac@xxxxxxxxx] En nombre de John L
Enviado el: Martes, 20 de Junio de 2006 12:50 p.m.
Para: Wendy Seltzer
CC: alac@xxxxxxxxx
Asunto: Re: [alac] Agenda planning for ALAC's dinner with the Board

>  The requirement that registrants fill out WHOIS details is clearly a 
> matter of ICANN policy directly depriving individuals of privacy 
> options.

Quite right, but it is at the same time directly useful for law enforcement
and others to deal with the wide range of abusive behavior, from spam and
phishing to online stalking, that affects individual users. 
We need to come to a position, but the range of reasonable positions remains
large.

> The add-grace period.

More generally, it benefits a tiny group of domain speculators while
shifting the costs, which some registries have described as substantial, to
everyone else.

> Can this thing work?  At least in North America, mainstream interest 
> in creating a RALO under the current ALS-RALO-no power structure 
> approximates zero.

Actually, we saw a fair amount of interest at the meeting in Canada last
week.  But wonderful though Canada is, it's only 10% of North America and I
agree that the interest in the other 90% just isn't there.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@xxxxxxxx, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for
Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://johnlevine.com, Mayor
"I dropped the toothpaste", said Tom, crestfallenly.

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