Re: [icann-eu] [FYI] WHO to sue ICANN over .health?

[Jefsey Morfin <jefsey@wanadoo.fr>]

Dear Marc,
May I add that "health" has no meaning for 90% of the human population.
After the digital divide, the tld divide.
".a hero" is quite better (just saw a copy of Top Gun today).
Jefsey

At 23:58 19/11/00, you wrote:
>On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, at 23:05 [=GMT+0100], Thomas Roessler wrote:
> > On Nov 17, the WHO issued a statement on ICANN's TLD decisions which
> > is short enough to be quoted here in its entirety.
> >
> > <http://www.who.int/inf-pr-2000/en/state2000-10.html>:
> >
> > >DOT.HEALTH
> > >WHO has learned via wire reports that our application for a

would they mean they did not even bother coming in MDR supporting
their application? The Internet community is extremely disapointed with
this not come and is eagerly awaiting the rationale of this misorganisation.

> > >top-level domain of Dot.Health has been rejected. We are still
> > >trying to get confirmation of this directly from ICANN. We are
> > >extremely disappointed with this outcome, if this is confirmed, and
> > >are eagerly awaiting the rationale of this decision, especially in
> > >light of decisions made to grant other TLDs. We will begin
> > >immediately to explore ways of recourse. WHO feels that the quality
> > >and standard of health information on the Internet, and the
> > >guarantees that this can give to "consumers", can only benefit from
> > >a Dot.Health TLD.

"consumers". Not patients. The word is said.

>Reading this my dislike of some UN organisations is much reinforced.
>First WIPO puts itself up as the internet guardian of human speech in
>the interest of business. Now we see the arrogance with which the WHO
>presents itself as a sort of health-censor. I find it sickening. Have
>they never heard of conflicting opinions among medical scientists?
>What forces are there behind the WHO?
>
>Not granting .HEALTH was a most wise decision. Wiser even than I was
>able to see before I read the above.

Wait for the others. How naive where the BoD members who believed
that ".pro", ".biz", ".info" etc... would make any difference. Try to register
"coke.info" to infom users on coal usage, and "mercedes.pro" as Ms.
Mercedes Almandariz, consultant.
Maybe Marc could you try "udrp.biz" ?
At least we avoided "good.health" being sold $ 1.000.000 this time.
Jefsey