.us domain request denied ????

[Danny Mayer]

At 10:58 PM 11/29/00 -0500, Kevin Darcy wrote:
>
>Well, if you want to go that far, there are other places on that same
website which use
>non-discretionary language: see the pages under http://www.nic.us/overview.
>
		That merely  means that you can interpret it any way you want.  BTW, the
  web pages are not a contract.  A contract is something requiring a physical
  signature (or now in the US a digital signature within limits).
Otherwise it's not
  really a contract.  And the contract can't refer to something that can
change
  overnight at the whim of one party.

>I'm no lawyer, but it seems like this non-discretionary language would
trump any
>discretionary language to be found in the same body of rules.
>
	This is an untrue statement.  It really means that any part of the
conflicting
  terms have to be interpreted, usually by a court.

>In any case, that particular section is irrelevant to the dispute at hand.
Even if the City
>of Naperville is permitted to put its hosts directly under
naperville.il.us (as opposed to
>ci.naperville.il.us), that fact alone doesn't permit them to *exclude*
others from putting
>their hosts there.
>
		That really depends on what else the contract states.


	There are really two cheap ways of resolving this:
	1) Find out what the TLD has established as procedures for conflict
resolution
	    and try and use them.

	2) Run for an elected city government post.  Once elected, you have some
leverage
	    over the people who decided on this policy and get them to change it.

			Danny