I was a bit surprised by the publication of the report. There is a teleconference tomorrow of the subcommittee... I thought we were going to approve it then, though the chair, Philip Sheppard, asked our comment end last week, and I told him, things were fine with me. Anyway, I do support the report. The only issue that I see: What is the decisive criterium for awarding .net to a bidder? I've argued for price (all other things being equal or similar, like 'stability' etc.). I think this ended up pretty good in the text. On Mon, 31 May 2004, at 10:58 [=GMT-0400], Milton Mueller wrote: > ICANN has released some criteria for deciding who gets to > operate the .net registry. The GNSO is soliciting comments > on the draft report for three weeks. Marc Schneiders was > our representative on this "subcommittee" so I encourage > him to alert us to any issues. I have read the report and it > looks pretty straightforward. > > ===== > > Draft Criteria for .net > > First 20-day Public Comment Period begins on 28 May 2004 ends on 18 June 2004 at 00:00 UTC > > The initial draft report from the GNSO subcommittee can be viewed here. > http://www.icann.org/tlds/dotnet-reassignment/Dot%20net%20committee%20v6.pdf > > Please send comments to: > [log in to unmask] > > comment archives at: > http://forum.icann.org/lists/dotnet-criteria/ >