[address-policy-wg] Summary of the PI Task Force's recent discussions

On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 08:52:45PM -0100,
 Hans Petter Holen <hpholen at tiscali.no> wrote 
 a message of 13 lines which said:

> * beating

I didn't.

> * calling eachother names (its ICANN not "Uncle Sam"

Yes, it is the same thing. Read www.icann.org and specially the parts
about the various contracts with DoC (US Department of Commerce) which
approves, in writing, every change in the root zone file.

> * discussing ICANN ccTLD operational matters in the RIPE address
> policy WG.

I didn't want to discuss ICANN matters. On the contrary, I wanted to
emphasize that ICANN practices are a fixed feature, like gravity, and
therefore we should design policies that take this feature into
account (if policies are meant to solve real-world problems, that is,
and not just to be "elegant").