Glyn,

For the record,  I am not antagonistic towards anyone in relation to this
issue.  Having worked in ICOM committees myself I KNOW the demands that they
place upon individuals.  That said, this is a very important issue and one
that is worthy of debate.

Until now (unless you are an ICOM member) our colleagues may not be fully
aware of the ramifications of this initiative.

As to the ORDER of the message placements, they are as they came to me, and
as listed in Global Museum's Forum section. BOTH sides of the debate are
fairly represented in my postings and listed in full, as they were sent.

Glyn, despite the hard work by all concerned, not everyone in the profession
shares the desire to have domain names allocated/controlled in this fashion.
Surely, they have a right to be heard and in all honesty, I don't believe
that there is a general awareness that this initiative applies to several
domains not just one.

best wishes
Roger
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Glyn Balkwill" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, 15 October 2000 4:28
Subject: Re: .museum application available on ICANN website


> At 08:05 AM 00/10/15 +1300, you wrote:
> >Basil,
> >
> >Thankyou for this posting.  What I (and others) may not have been aware
of
> >is that Cary's sector interest committee are trying to tie up not only
> >.museum domains but also
> >
> >.mus
> >.muse
> >.musea
> >.museums
>
> At the risk of being flamed I am not sure I understand Roger's `faintly'
> antagonistic attitude. The possibility of registering this TLD was
mentioned
> on various lists quite a while back. Having scanned the info at the URL
> given it seems to me that ICOM and Cary have put a hell of a lot of work
> into this proposal and ?once? off opportunity and should be congratulated
> and encouraged in their efforts to secure .museum, etc for use by museums.
> Let's get it registered and see how it works. If MDMA does things we don't
> like by becoming members we'll have a say in changing their policy at a
> later stage.
>
> I encourage members to go to http://www.icann.org/tlds/mus1/ , click on
> public comment forum, and give a positive response. Up to now, although I
> posted a positive response a while back, only the `global' museum
responses,
> ?deliberately? negative at the top with some positive responses further
down
> and a negative response from the music industry appear.
>
> Are those of us in favour just passive or is there really a general
> opposition to registering this (these) TLD's?
>
> I look forward to the responses (flames)
>
> Glyn

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