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Sotiris Sotiropoulos has posted his notes from a telephone conference on possible at-large structures for ICANN 2.

This has been linked to all over the place. Just in case you didn’t listen to it, here’s a reminder: Lawrence Lessig’s speech at the Open Source Conference 2002 is available online, in MP3 and Flash formats. The flash version includes the slides, synchronized with the audio recording.

Re-reading the text of yesterday’s executive committee resolution, I notice that it’s not just about the Australian government’s costs for being the GAC secretariat, but about its actual costs of providing chair and scretariat services to the GAC. I wonder what that means.

ICANN has posted preliminary minutes of the Executive Committee’s meeting on August 13.

From the DNSO secretariat: The Public Comment Period on the WHOIS Final Report of the Names Council’s WHOIS Task Force is extended to AUGUST 28, 2002. Archives / Final report.

The Names Council is going to elect its new chairman during its telephone conference on August 29, 2002. The nomination period lasted from August 2 to August 8. Bruce Tonkin is the only candidate. He was nominated by the NC’s current chairman, Philip Sheppard, and seconded by Ken Stubbs.

second-system effect: n. (sometimes, more euphoniously, second-system syndrome) When one is designing the successor to a relatively small, elegant, and successful system, there is a tendency to become grandiose in one’s success and design an {elephantine} feature-laden monstrosity.

(The Jargon File 4.0.0.)

During today’s WHOIS task force conference call, an interesting proposal from GNR on modifying access to the .name WHOIS database was discussed. The proposal attempts to take .name’s character as a TLD targeted at individual registrants into account. A brief summary of the proposal is available from the nc-whois list archive. There is also an MP3 recording of the telephone conference.

Bret Fausett, who is a member of the Names Policy Development Process Advisory Group, has posted some comments on that group’s current work.

You may have noticed that strange link to Jabba’s Trashcan. As you certainly have guessed, Jabba is a spam trap. I set it up last Thursday. The address was published in two ways: First, it’s included on that ugly web page, as a mailto link. Second, I went to the “remove” forms of some spams I regularly get, and entered Jabba’s address. Guess what, the first real spam to that address arrived on Saturday. Quite frankly, I knew things are bad, but this is really faster than I expected.