On Sun, 21 Sep 1997, Hank Nussbacher wrote:

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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".

The problem is that joining the PAB requires signing the gTLD MOU, which has some unacceptable provisions. There are suggestions that one can sign the gTLD MOU while disagreeing with certain of its provisions. DEC has done this. If people could agree on what parts of the gTLD MOU are disagreeable, it might well be worth while signing with a standard disclaimer. This would of course only give you membership in the PAB, a powerless body whose role is simply to give advice. The price for this is your signature, which will be used as evidence of your support for the entire gTLD MOU process. -- Jim Dixon VBCnet GB Ltd http://www.vbc.net tel +44 117 929 1316 fax +44 117 927 2015 -------- Logged at Sun Sep 21 11:21:14 MET DST 1997 ---------