Re: [Ietf] New .mobi, .xxx, ... TLDs?

Jefsey (and others),

Due to prompt action on the part of ICANN staff once this was 
called to their attention, the problem is now fixed and, due to 
some spam-cleaning done at the same time, the posting is now at 
http://forum.icann.org/lists/stld-rfp-general/msg00039.html/.
The implication of your posting that this might have been 
deliberate (at least as I read "singular impeachment") does not 
appear to me to be justified by anything I have seen.   Instead, 
I suspect that the problem results from sloppy or incorrect 
implementations of the standards: software that relies on 
content-type information (in either email or HTTP) would 
presumably have no trouble opening the original message 
attachment.  Software that relies, instead, on file "type" 
suffixes or other sometimes-random information, as much 
Windows-based software appears to do, can get itself and the 
user rather throughly confused.  It is hard to realistically 
blame that problem on some malice or conspiracy at ICANN (or the 
ITU, or anywhere else in that set of processes).
People will have to decide for themselves how "most important" 
this entry is.   Personally, I found it a bit circuitous, asking 
for discussion (clearly a good idea) rather than really taking a 
position.  I was,  however, pleased to see the ITU Secretary 
General recognizing IETF's role in ENUM... that part of the 
story has sometimes gotten lost.
And, contrary to your note, the posted note appears to comment 
directly only on one of the two TEL. proposals and not at all on 
the MOBI. one.  Whether one can impute a conspiracy to that, or 
whether the ITU really only sees a significant problem with that 
one proposal, is something you would have to address with them.
regards,
  john



--On Friday, 30 April, 2004 18:36 +0200 jfcm <info(_at_)utel(_dot_)net> 
wrote:
> At 03:42 30/04/04, John C Klensin wrote:
> > http://www.icann.org/tlds/stld-apps-19mar04/stld-public-comme
> > nts.htm
> Dear John,
> it seems that (one of the) most important entry (the letter
> from ITU regarding the .tel/.mobi requests) cannot be
> accessed.
> http://forum.icann.org/lists/stld-rfp-general/msg00043.html
> This seems to be a singular impeachment to a transparent
> debate on the matter.
> Due to the delay I suggest that ITU sends IETF a copy while
> you might as a BoD Member ask staff to urgently correct that
> situation.
> jfc

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