Forwarded from the WSIS Internet Governance Caucus list....apropos of Horacio's comments, this pretty much sums up the absurdity of what is happening in some circles. >>> "Lee McKnight" <[log in to unmask]> 08/30/05 10:50 AM >>> I must have missed something, because if I am following the gist of the TLD thread properly: 1) we object to US unilateral control of the net, except when that control is used to regulate content we may or may not personally object to 1)a (and since the line drawn here is perfectly clear, there is no need to be alarmist about this, just relax, this is a special case) 2) the root zone file is really really small, so we should not make it bigger, except of course we must make it bigger because of DNSSec, but not to worry, we know bigger is no problem - but we must make it no bigger than that, except when we do (eventually add multilingual gTLDs) 3) and of course we know permitting many more gTLDs would reduce their scarcity value and make it less likely we would argue about them, but we prefer arguing about them, except in this case, where three x's in a row are really offensive and just dumb, except to the rest of the world which wishes more attention would be paid to making it easier to add other scripts and many multilingual domains and - dare I say it? gTLDs... As we now appear to have reached a rough consensus on points 1-3, perhaps we can move on the list to thinking about matters such as PrepCom 3, and the forum, and... Lee