At 11:39 PM 7/31/2002 -0700, Einar Stefferud wrote: >All of this went very well until ICANN chose to add a new TLD that >conflicted with our ORSC .BIZ TLD which was a long time member in good >standing in the ORSC "family. Stef, This federation that you are describing was formed without any involvement of IANA/ICANN. It was done entirely independently. So the idea that IANA/ICANN was somehow obligated to coordinate its own activities with an independent effort is a very basic non sequitur. d/ ---------- Dave Crocker <mailto:dave@tribalwise.com> TribalWise, Inc. <http://www.tribalwise.com> tel +1.408.246.8253; fax +1.408.850.1850