Don't be silly. ICANN talks with DoC because ICANN has a contract
with them. DNSO.ORG has no contact with DoC.
> He is a very disengenious fellow. He knows very well that ORSC operates
> under exparte rules, under these types of circumstances.
Dan Steinberg just sent a message regaling us with tales of his many
conversations with NTIA people. I wonder where the public
transcripts of those are?
> He knows very well
> the track-record of ORSC, in these same circumstances.
Oh, indeed I do. :-) That is precisely the issue.
> He has been on the
> ORSC list for quite some time, including the period in which these rules
> were developed. He even provided some suggestions for them. Now he is
> pretending ignorance in order to show ORSC in a bad light, to the uninitiated.
ORSC did not develop ex parte rules. They are a long pre-existing
set of procedures developed for public agencies.
> These past few weeks have seen a number of disengenious messages from Kent
> Crispin. Mostly questions to which he definitely new the correct answer,
> but worded in a way so as to cast a negative view, completely at odds with
> the answer he already knew about.
You are very perceptive. Let me describe how that goes. I read
reams of stuff on the list, and finally so fed up with a particular
dishonest/inaccurate/clueless/whatever point of view that I have to
respond. Just arguing is pointless, so I respond by duplicating the
behavior in an ironic way. That's what you call "disingenuous".
Sometimes those not so versed in irony don't get it.
-- Kent Crispin, PAB Chair "Do good, and you'll be kent@songbird.com lonesome." -- Mark Twain