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Re - I wonder if the 'magic' has anything to do with a connection between the 7 dwarves and control of the internet at ICANN.

This is fascinating -

https://archive.icann.org/en/meetings/accra/captioning-afternoon-14mar02.htm

ICANN Board Meeting in Accra Real-Time Captioning

14 March 2002 - Afternoon Session

Note: The following is the output of the real-time captioning taken during the afternoon session of the ICANN Board meeting held 14 March 2002 in Accra, Ghana. Although it is largely accurate, in some cases it is incomplete or inaccurate due to inaudible passages or transcription errors. It is posted as an aid to understanding the proceedings at the session, but should not be treated as an authoritative record.

Discussion of the .pro suffix for domain names on the internet.

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Mr. President puts that on the table.

Is there a second?

Jonathan Cohen.

Is there any discussion of this particular resolution? Amadeu.

Amadeu Abril i Abril: Well, yesterday, I raised some small concerns regarding the nature of some of – some specific clauses here. And I don't know how we'll proceed here.

Indeed, I was shooting live the questions and was not able to find – the policy level for ICANN is the clause 2-6, appendix g, that somehow the door is open. And open door stands to raise expectations about future change in the nature of the TLD in which the proposal to structure top-level domain pro, – with equivalent semantic levels, such as dot law, dot net, with avocatto and others, besides being able to open that on some functional levels, which nobody discussed, was in the original proposal, or new levels needed to add because of the semantic problems that weren't realized at the very beginning, now there is a third possibility that wasn't in the original proposal and that raises a policy question about the possibility of having in the future names registered at the second level instead of at the third level, and having a combined utility in which sometimes names are in the second, sometimes the third, as the same for a functional TLD.

I think it somehow breaches the logic of a top-level domain that was whole different boxes for different professions, having them all under dot pro directly. I don't think it's a good idea for the domain itself.

But my problem is that, very often, when we discuss domain name policy here, we are discussing among experts. And we think everything is easy to understand. But, you know, the domains we haven't really sent to the market. In my own observation, have created a lot of confusion because of the vast differences in policies, times, (inaudible) claims, whatever. It's something like VeriSign and the seven dwarfs. And if you can remember which is sleepy and which one is chief and which one is the red one.

But some of these dwarfs are really strange and bizarre.

Eldoradude said:
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