RE: [registrars] Proposed Agenda for December 5th RC Meeting

["John Berryhill" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Thanks.  I believe that the Board would like to discuss domain tasting as
>well.

Oh good golly, leftovers again?  Do the domains taste better with age?

There is an entire workshop dedicated to the subject on Wednesday.  Tim and
Rob can conduct the entire debate using capoeira [1].

Verisign is bringing "data and statistics" this time.  Presumably, if they
are no longer clearing a net gain on domain tasting, it will be deemed
abusive under the registry-registrar contract, and we can move on.  Or, as
demonstrated by PIR, Verisign can decide to try to collect nickels.

Other than that, given their stated intention not to make the results of any
relevant analysis public, then there can only be a limited number of guesses
as to why they claim to be bringing "data and statistics".

Sell the .com zone error log to the highest bidder and find a new topic,
such as recent improvements to the registrar data escrow program.  

Refs:

[1]  Capoeira is Brazilian slang for "ICANN consensus process" :

http://www.capoeira.com/content.php?article.248

Capoeira is uniquely Brazilian. According to tradition it was created by the
African slaves who were brought to Brazil by the Portuguese. Prohibited from
fighting amongst themselves, the slaves developed a fighting style that
appeared to be a dance. Capoeiristas would glide and float around each other
using elaborate movements, rolling, cartwheeling, twisting and falling,
always, always to the sinuous rhythmic twang of the Berimbau, an instrument
made from the thin branch of a tree, a piece of wire from a nearby fence,
and a dry cabaça, a hollow fruit found in the Amazon. To their white owners,
the slaves would appear to be singing and dancing, but inside the circle of
clapping and chanting spectators, two capoeiristas were honing their
fighting skills, preparing for the day when they would rise up and fight
against their oppressors.