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	Friday, 27 February 2004

Shocking lack of clue in DNC and InternetNZ Well, if you went to the DNC or InternetNZ websites right know you would have no idea that consulting process was open for 2LD review or zone transfer policy. I guess having 7+ staff or contractors is not enough to do basic website updates...I know... lets send more people to ICANN meetings to make up for it! 4:13:57 PM      Like to comment? []

NZOC minutes on Hiser and top down fiats I guess I should have read the minutes from the recent NZOC meeting. I see buried in it that complimenting Hiser on her appointment. I also see it show a demand for a Disputes Process. Curious how less than 10 questionnaires were completed on this issue and how I have seen no consumer demand for this service. Bottom up shows no need for it but in typical ICANN like fashion NZOC thinks it is required... bring on user representation to this qango! 4:00:04 PM      Like to comment? []

Donna Hisser on board of NZRS Looks like Donna Hiser has been appointed to the board of NZRS. No announcement of it but then again InternetNZ is shocking in its inability to mention these things. 3:50:44 PM      Like to comment? []

VeriSign, ICANN, SiteFinder and WLS on Washington Post Washington Post has story today about VeriSign filing suit against ICANN over Sitefinder. The article is very interesting but when I read the following part (emphasis mine) I was shocked. VeriSign also is protesting ICANN's decision to take at least two years to consider a VeriSign service that allows users to register dot-com addresses containing non-English characters. The corporation has taken the same amount of time to consider whether to approve a service that allows people to get on a waiting list for domain names before they expire. "Working the ICANN process is like being nibbled to death by ducks," Galvin said. Galvin said ICANN's contractual powers should not extend to those services. If they did, Galvin he argued, ICANN must move faster to rule on them. Out of the three items, Site Finder is the only one considered controversial. Many of the technology experts, companies and nonprofit groups that oversee the Internet's infrastructure said that the service, which was briefly live last fall, caused Internet services to malfunction, including filters that block spam e-mail and Internet browsers designed for non-English speakers. Hang on, based on this no one would know that WLS lawsuits are being filed and that WLS has had massive resistance in the market place, both by end users and industry participants. 11:20:17 AM      Like to comment? []

	Thursday, 26 February 2004

Radio and lack of stories I just noticed that no postings for last 2 weeks have appeared on the site. I think I have fixed the issue. This is a semi recurring issue with Radio, it says it has uploaded all the stories yet it hasnt... 10:18:09 AM      Like to comment? []

IDG on 2LD WG draft report IDG has a story about the 2LD WG report with quotes from the DNC. 9:52:06 AM      Like to comment? []

2LD WG releases draft policy document 2LD Policy Review WG has released a document (PDF) for discussion. I cant find any link on the website for it but the link does work. The following is a copy of the annoucement about it: The 2LD Working Group (WG) has considered all submissions received during the first public consultation of the 2LD policy review. The WG now invite comment on a proposed new Second Level Domain policy. The Working Group are seeking comment on the proposed policy that can be read at http://www.dnc.org.nz/content//proposed_new_2LD_policy.pdf Key features of the proposed policy include: The continued registration of .nz domain names at the third level A simpler process for creating new second level domains Criteria set for creating new second level domains Different processes for creating moderated and open second level domains All comments are welcome. Please submit your comments via email to policies@dnc.org.nz. All submissions received will be published on this page. Submissions close on 5 April 2004 9:50:19 AM      Like to comment? []

Zone Transfer Policy for review (at long last) At last the proposed Zone Transfer Policy document (PDF) is open for comments. This only took 6 months and the intitial comment peroid only received 2, from myself and Ewen McNeill. 9:44:46 AM      Like to comment? []

Domainz articles Couple of stories the other day about Domainz becoming ICANN accredited. Its amazing what a press release with no worthwhile information in it can generate. IDG and Dominion Post stories. 9:41:48 AM      Like to comment? []

	Monday, 23 February 2004

Domainz and ICANN Domainz just issued a press release stating they have finally been approved as an ICANN registrar. Not that this really means much as they are owned by one of the largest gTLD registrars. 4:40:53 PM      Like to comment? []

	Thursday, 5 February 2004

What I would like for .nz in 2004 Things I would like to see in 2004 regarding .nz: .nz registrar market share statistics published Zonefile 'consulting' completed (this should have been finished months ago) 2LD review 'consulting' completed Pending release names published InternetNZ implements NZOC election process (partial elected and appointed would be ok) I am sure there are more, but off the top of my head if all these are completed I will be happy. 11:13:37 AM      Like to comment? []

Public display of pending release names? I was thinking about the .com/.net WLS issue the other day when reading the DNC .nz newsletter. I wonder if the DNC (via NZRS) will ever publicly display the names that have a status of  'pending release'. The mere fact of making this public could have a political impact on other TLD's that are planning to charge for this type of service as well as stop any fragmented secondary market from occurring. 11:00:28 AM      Like to comment? []

SRS source on SourceForge NZRS released last week the source for the SRS. This was the day after the MS Word file was sent to people. 10:48:48 AM      Like to comment? []