RE: [gnso-vi-feb10] New Revised SRSU Text

[Milton L Mueller <mueller@xxxxxxx>]

That's the longest and strangest way of saying "I was wrong" I have ever read. 

> -----Original Message-----
> feb10@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Eric Brunner-Williams
> 
> On the .ngo issue.
> 
> I would like to shed some light on the .ngo discussion by observing
> that I am in possession of an RFI by an NGO (who's name is not
> trademarked) which, upon several readings, appears to solicit
> responses from potential providers of what I view as a restricted,
> single-registrant, single-user TLD, consistent with, except for the
> use of a brand as the criteria for existence (and presumably, for any
> such application prevailing in any string contention set), the
> .bRO-SRSU model offered by Kristina.
> 
> It is the case that there is at least one NGO which is informed, and
> consents in principle, to policy development favoring the type of
> application it seeks to submit to ICANN.
> 
> The information came to me directly from the NGO in question, and was
> not solicited.
> 
> I don't think this means the .xRO-WXYZ drill is anywhere close to
> having final values for {x, W, X, Y, and Z} or the associated
> meanings, but it is no longer a proof by assertion that there exists a
> party qualified for, and seeking, a ".ngo".
> 
> Eric