AW: AW: [ICANN-EU] ICANN Revokes Domain Names

[SchultzKom@t-online.de (Christian Schultz Kommunalberatung)]

Dear Alexander,

even when ICANN follows old decisions, it should inform us if we are
members. The life is complex enough but when I read ICANN will decide about
domain names I thought we would be a little bit informed about this, perhaps
like you did it at your german ICANN Channel Info.
Thanks for this, I want such an information for our ML too.

Best regards

Christian


-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Alexander Svensson [mailto:svensson@icannchannel.de]
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 9. November 2000 23:39
An: SchultzKom@t-online.de; icann-europe@fitug.de
Betreff: Re: AW: [ICANN-EU] ICANN Revokes Domain Names



Dear Christian,

you wrote to Jim Fleming:
> I totally agree with you. The main question is: Where is the open and
> transparent ICANN Board discussions on this ? If not even we as
> @large-members hear of ICANN anything, I think we need more open doors and
> windows.
> Our representatives should work on it!

just to put things into proportion: The decision to
revoke domain names ending in a '-' was taken in
*January*. Those domains had only been registered due
to a *software bug* in NSI Registry's Shared Registry
System.

The labelling syntax ("[The labels] must start with a
letter, end with a letter or digit, and have as interior
characters only letters, digits, and hyphen.") is to be
found in RFC 1035 from November 1997. It's even in RFC 882
from 1983 when the Domain Name System was created, and
it's based on the rules for ARPANET host names from
1970-something. You can't really blame ICANN for following
these specifications.

Best regards,
/// Alexander