Niall & tld-wg, [Thanks for forwarding the message - not sure why my own attempt didn't work..] I am under the impression that late comments to the Green Paper might not have much impact but there is now also a proposed "rule" which the Dept. of Commerce have published. Being ignorant of US governmental procedures, I dont know what the exact process nor its implications are, and there seems to have been some doubt expressed (on the IETF list - so it could be nonsense) as to the legality of this move. I dont know. (Actually, if someone here knows the definitive ruling on this, I'm sure the tld-wg would be interested in knowing.) However, it appears that this is gathering momentum. The proposed "rule" can be found at: http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/022098fedreg.txt and I understand that there is about a month left on which to comment on this. I dont propose to start a parallel discussion here but my question to you guys is whether or not you think it might be useful to formulate a combined response from the European TLD administrators community / ISP community? I know some of you have met with Magaziner privately - do you believe he took your comments on board? (Again, I admit ignorance.) Do you think they will listen to comments from outside the US? Is the proposed rule a Bad Thing or a Good Thing, in your opinion? Does it affect us at all (since most of use country-level TLDs)? Do we care? John John Martin TERENA, Singel 466-468, NL - 1017 AW Amsterdam phone: +31 20 5304488 ** fax: +31 20 5304499 ** http://www.terena.nl/ ** Please note telephone and fax numbers -------- Logged at Tue Feb 24 13:07:52 MET 1998 ---------