RIPE TLD-WG Action List
Hank Nussbacher HANK at VM.TAU.AC.IL
Sun Sep 21 10:13:40 CEST 1997
On Sat, 20 Sep 1997 23:45:07 +0200 you said: >> If you measure things in Internet terms, by looking at host counts, >> for example, Europe represents something like 25% of the Internet. >> From this point of view, two seats are insufficient. >> >> Of course, if you look at things from a functional point of view, >> the Internet itself is seriously under-represented on the iPOC. > >Also, if you look at the participating members of the PAB it starts >to become a joke. The totally unrepresentative PAB which has no >power but recommends to the [i]POC which is unrepresentative and has >no power but recommends to the some day CORE which is supposed to >have power but doesn't because according to the gTLD-MoU the ISOC >and IANA have veto power over everything. Neat, huh? And if everyone in RIPE joined the PAB, you would become a controlling force rather than what you refer to as "a joke". > >I don't really want to stir up yet another debate on this list since >there are plenty to bore everyone on the other related lists, but >personally I'd rather see RIPE make an effort to work on a logical, >workable, reasonable solution than to support the IAHC mess. > >My 0.02 Euros... >Ray http://www.STOP-gTLD-MoU.org/ > Hank -------- Logged at Sun Sep 21 10:36:26 MET DST 1997 ---------
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