At 05:13 PM 8/6/2002 -0700, Einar Stefferud wrote: >When you ignore pedestrians in the street while driving and kill them, >you have not done what is called "A good thing". The operative word I used was "independent". The ORSC is working with an independent name space. It created an independent name space, as it was free to do. It has been independently administering it. So ORSC and ICANN are driving on indepednent name highways. No collisions are possible BETWEEN the two, independent activities. If ORSC has a problem with the policies it has chosen for its independent activity, it is free to change them. No one is preventing them from making that change. Certainly not ICANN. All of this changes, of course, if someone tries to force an overlap of these otherwise independent name spaces. Oh. That's right. That's what ORSC has independently chosen to do and is now trying to retroactively fix by claiming the need for some sort of meta-name space administration that overlaps ORSC with ICANN. d/ ---------- Dave Crocker <mailto:dave@tribalwise.com> TribalWise, Inc. <http://www.tribalwise.com> tel +1.408.246.8253; fax +1.408.850.1850