I shouldn't add more to this thread but from recent experience I have found that all ICANN decisions regarding the modification of the root(.) must be approved by the US Department of Commerce. So most of the frustration of the users dealing with reasonable requests (both parties agreeing) comes from the fact that ICANN totally shield the US Department of Commerce bureaucracy. Add ICANN bureaucracy and you have Brazil (la la la la la laaaa, Braaazilll...)... May be Karl should get a court order to access the documents in the US Department of Commerce to have an idea on how the Department of commerce makes his decisions. Also to record names instead of titles in IANA records obliges you to find this guy who was the head of the computer department and who decided to retire as an hermit in the jungle of Brazil (la la la....) Cheers. -----Original Message----- From: Karl Auerbach [mailto:karl@cavebear.com] Sent: Friday, 2 August 2002 7:09 To: ietf Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Subject: Correcting an incorrect assertion. Was: Re: delegation mechanism... The following concerns my lawsuit against ICANN and highly incorrect misstatements made on this list about the outcome of that action. I have no intention of turning this into a thread, but I do feel that I'm within the bounds of etiquitte by sending a corrective e-mail. On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Dave Crocker wrote: > 2. Note that Karl won the suit, but lost the war. He is now subject to > the conditions that ICANN had originally wanted to apply for his > access. The only difference is that now Karl is under a court order to > conform to those rules. The writer of the above paragraph has his facts completely wrong. He is doing nothing more than parrotting back ICANN's quite misleading press release.