How Europe caused CORE to fail

At 09:16 PM 1/24/98 +0200, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
>As many of you are aware the entire gTLD MoU and CORE setup is
>close to dissolving. 
>
>Extract from: http://www.nwfusion.com/news/0122dns.html
>Sources said Magaziner may reject the CORE proposal because it was
>designed "behind closed doors" and because it would have shifted domain

I am so sick of hearing this, I find it hard to come up with the
right words!  The process was more open to public scrutiny than
any other element ever introduced into the net!  Further, it was
open to anyone who wanted to participate.  That some decided not
to participate and, instead, shoot from the periphery, is only a
testament to their different agenda  -  mostly because it was to 
their private interests, rather than the wider interest of the
Internet.

>naming from the U.S. to Geneva. Magaziner declined to comment. 
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>
>Best stop now if you don't want some serious flammage.
><FLAME>
>
>One of the two major reasons the USA gov't has back off of this entire
>proposal is the removal of the USA from gTLDs (the other is trademark
>issues).
>
>Lets look at the current POC:
>
>     Amadeu Abril i Abril, <amadeu at nominalia.com>, Spain-Europe, appointed by
>     CORE 
>     Rob Austein, <sra at epilogue.com>, USA-Americas, appointed by IAB 
>     Willie Black, <w.black at nominet.org.uk>, UK-Europe, appointed by IANA 
>     Patrik Fältström, <paf at swip.net>, Sweden-Europe, appointed by IAB 
>     Christopher Gibson, <christopher.gibson at wipo.int>, International Treaty
>     Organization, appointed by WIPO 
>     Geert Glas, <geert.glas at lcv.be>, Belgium-Europe, appointed by INTA 
>     Alan Hanson, <alan at finet.net>, USA-Americas, appointed by CORE 
>     Glen Kowack, <gkowack at well.com>, USA-Americas, appointed by IANA 
>     David W. Maher (POC Chair), <dwmaher at ibm.net>, USA-Americas, appointed
>     by ISOC 
>     Robert Shaw, <robert.shaw at itu.int>, International Treaty Organization,
>     appointed by ITU 
>     Christopher Wilkinson, <christopher.wilkinson at bxl.dg13.cec.be>,
>     Belgium-Europe, appointed by ISOC 
>
>PAB Observers 
>
>     Peter Mott, <peter at 2day.net.nz>, New Zealand-Asia-Pacific, appointed by
>     gTLD-MoU Policy Advisory Body 
>     Javier Sola, <jsola at aui.es>,  Spain-Europe, appointed by gTLD-MoU Policy
>     Advisory Body 
>
>Out of 11+2 members on POC, Rob Austein, Dave Maher, Glen Kowack and
>Alan Hanson are USA reps. That makes USA representation about 30%. Go
>back a year and you will find that in the IAHC the USA made up 54%.
>
>Out of 11 people on the IAHC clearly 6 were USA based and residing
>American citizens: Sally Abel, Georges Strawn, Perry Metzger, Dave
>Crocker, Don Heath, Dave Maher.
>
>Now lets look at the current gTLDs: com/net/org. 99% of all USA based
>companies register their names in these 3 gTLDs. If we examine the RIPE
>stats that are published each month, I would guess that only about 10%
>of companies in Europe register in the gTLD area and prefer the nTLDs.
>So the general makeup of current users of gTLDs is overwhelming USA (we
>have said all along the gTLDs is a USA based problem and they should
>migrate to .us as everyone else is using the ISO3166 nTLD effectively).
>
>So for something that is mainly used by Americans, and created by
>Americans (Arpanet), and run by Americans (IANA), we were able to
>extract 46% non-USA participants. Not bad. But anyone who has followed
>the IAHC, iPOC, POC lists and discussions knows that Europe and
>non-Americans have been clamoring for *more* representation. So now USA
>has a minority stake in POC (30%), due to the unrelenting pressure of
>certain geographical interest groups.
>
>What have you gained? It could very well end up to be "king of nothing".
>The USA gov't is not stupid. The gTLD MoU was set up in Geneva,
>controlled via a very European run organization (ITU - go thru the halls
>and count the number of European employees) and we might have been able
>to pull it all off if certain people had checked their geo-egos at the
>door and looked at what they had gained.
>
>Today, as well as last year, Europe has zero say in anything regarding
>gTLDs. NSI and IANA do not listen to the ITU, WIPO, the EC nor anyone
>out of the USA government. We were on the way to convincing the USA
>gov't to go along with the plan and suddenly it finds out that only 30%
>of the people are American. So once Ira and Bill scuttle the CORE plan,
>ITU/WIPO/EC will be right back where it was a two years ago with once
>again zero say in the gTLD realm.
>
>You have only yourselves to blame if CORE gets dissolved.
>
>Hank Nussbacher
>former IAHC member
>former iPOC member
>IL nTLD contact
></FLAME>
>
>Sorry I have been rather blunt, but just had to get this off my chest.
>
>
>



See you at INET'98, Geneva 21-24, July 98 
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