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From: brunner@nic-naa.net

howdy all from a cold room 100km north of the equator.

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... That's an *amazingly* oblique and de minimis reference to the topic on point, couched in Eric's usually opaque language ... ...

i'm reading this from the meeting room where the generic names supporting organization council is meeting (saturday is gnso policy day), in what i've heard is disneyland with a death penalty.

two things i think "of note" have occured in the past week+:

1. the deparment of commerce summarized (first round!) notice and comment period (see the apa or ask an admin practitioner near you or read fox, a worthwhile activity in its own right -- google "+fox +administrative-law") on the iana function contract, and

2. the department of justice responded to the department of commerce request for guidance on competition policy issues and the icann board resolution of november last to end structural separation in the competitive market created through the competitive registrar testbed in 2000.

i read each as notice from the usg that the drift, or direction, depending on one's point of view, of a 501(c)(3) to which rule making may have been delegated, is subject to correction.

so did anyone have a question or is my epistolary stylistic genius sufficient as topic of general interest?

... and he talked for 45 minutes, and no one understood a word that he said. :-) I *think* you're saying that the USG may decide that it wants to piss the world off even further, by deciding that it's made a mistake delegating things to ICANN, and *taking them back*; is that roughly where you're going? Cheers, -- jr 'anyotherkindathing you got to say pertaining to and about the crime 'a -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274