The European Community wants the whole thing negotiated, decided and run by government bureaucrats. They are *NOT* pleased that the IAHC has attempted an end-run around their bureaucratic fiat in Brussels. So I suppose this is a choice as well; shall we call it the Brussels round of the GATT, negotiations expected to be finalized sometime in 2008. :-(
s/Community/Commision/g possibly. I believe the general concensus from those who are involved with naming issues in Europe was that IAHC is rather rushed, and that *certain* of the elements therein were not particularly well thought out. I can't think of anyone not in a government/EC influenced body who *does* want the thing run by govt beurocrats - certainly not in the UK where I and others have just spent the last 18 months trying to avoid this happen to .uk. Alex Bligh Xara Networks (and NOMINET non-exec director)