[IFWP] kmm027: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

1999-02-24 Thread Kerry Miller
Dear IFWP and all, At long last, all is revealed. kerry == The 'argument' of _The Marriage of Heaven and Hell_ opens in angry clouds, the destructive wrath of revolution; for 'the just man' (energy) has been compelled from his own dangerous and flourishing pursuits into

[IFWP] ICANN comments deadline

1999-02-24 Thread Molly Shaffer Van Houweling
[Sorry for the cross-posting and repetition, but I want to be sure that no one misses their chance to submit comments on issues to be considered by the ICANN Board.] Please submit comments to ICANN on the proposals for the domain name supporting organization, draft registrar accreditation

Re: [IFWP] ICANN comments deadline

1999-02-24 Thread Bob Allisat
Molly Shaffer Van Houwelling wrote Please submit comments to ICANN... Why? Bob Allisat Free Community Network _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://fcn.net _ http://fcn.net/allisat http://robin.fcn.net

Re: [IFWP] kmm027: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

1999-02-24 Thread Bob Allisat
"kmm027: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" ? What a piece of derivative Allisat wannabe shite. Not only is it phucking interminably long it lacks any sense let alone sense of humour. Sometimes imitation is niether the best form nor flattery but simply, grossly embarassing and BORING.

Re: [IFWP] ICANN comments deadline

1999-02-24 Thread Jim Fleming
Bob, I placed my comments between the two asterisks... /**/ Jim Fleming Unir Corporation vPC + C+@ + IPv8 + 2,048 TLDs...this network solution is simple... -Original Message- From: Bob Allisat [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Molly Shaffer Van Houweling [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[IFWP] Nelson: ICANN Red Cross Style (?!)

1999-02-24 Thread Bob Allisat
Mike Nelson (quoted) refering to various open governance proposals : = ... if the Red Cross doesn't operate under these procedures, = why should ICANN? From: http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu ... + A Harsh Rebuke + + DeMont, John + Maclean's (12/08/97) Vol. 110, No. 49, P. 20 + + The infection of

[IFWP] ICANN Singapore meeting details

1999-02-24 Thread Molly Shaffer Van Houweling
For those of you who haven't seen this already . . . Dear IFWP list members, As you know, ICANN will be holding a public meeting in Singapore on March 3 (details at http://www.icann.org/singapore.html) in conjunction with APRICOT'99 (http://www.apricot.net). If you plan to attend the meeting

[IFWP] ICANN Supporters BOYCOTT !!

1999-02-24 Thread Bob Allisat
http://www.icann.org/contributors.html ... + + The ICANN Board of Directors thanks the following contributors + to the ICANN Startup Fund for their generosity: + + Compaq Computer Corporation, $25,000 + IBM, $25,000 + MCI Worldcom, $25,000 + Netscape Communications Corporation, $15,000 + Paul D.

[IFWP] ICANN Supporters

1999-02-24 Thread Jim Dixon
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Bob Allisat wrote: http://www.icann.org/contributors.html ... + + The ICANN Board of Directors thanks the following contributors + to the ICANN Startup Fund for their generosity: + + Compaq Computer Corporation, $25,000 + IBM, $25,000 + MCI Worldcom, $25,000 +

Re: [IFWP] ICANN Supporters BOYCOTT !!

1999-02-24 Thread Ronda Hauben
Bob Allisat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.icann.org/contributors.html ... + + The ICANN Board of Directors thanks the following contributors + to the ICANN Startup Fund for their generosity: + + Compaq Computer Corporation, $25,000 + IBM, $25,000 + MCI Worldcom, $25,000 + Netscape

http://www.east.isi.edu/ was Re: [IFWP] ICANN Supporters BOYCOTT !!

1999-02-24 Thread Jim Fleming
Ronda, If you want to see what a tangled web these people weavecheck out... http://www.east.isi.edu/ http://www.east.isi.edu/projects.html http://www.east.isi.edu/ms/ms.html IPv6 Publicly Available Stack Development for Microsoft Research @@ Here we are in

[IFWP] IFWP: Founding Convention?

1999-02-24 Thread Bob Allisat
Einar Stefferud wrote: + By what measure is 3 days maximum elapsed time deemed sufficient to + obtain indepth and thoughtful comments (or suupport) from the global + Interent Community? + + Sahdes of IAHC... they at least allowed us to have a couple of weeks + before reading and ignoring our

Re: [IFWP] IFWP: Founding Convention?

1999-02-24 Thread Jim Fleming
Bob, In my opinion, you have to let it go, or let the people go. If you study implosion and black holes (like ICANN) you will see that there is an event horizon. There is a boundary and people crossing that boundary will eventually be pulled into the vortex. In my opinion, it is sad, but reality

Re: [IFWP] Market Structure Failure

1999-02-24 Thread Martin B. Schwimmer
I didn't pick Sweden by accident. Think about the way in which Sweden's NIC administers that ccTLD and you will understand why I said that pizza-hut.firm creates issues that pzza-hut.se does not. Yes, third party ownership of pizza-hut.se could violate PIZZA HUT'S rights. But which is more

Re: [IFWP] ICANN Supporters BOYCOTT !!

1999-02-24 Thread Roeland M.J. Meyer
Hello Ronda, Heretofore, you have been annoying chime, but the following is pure FUD. Having worked in two of the organizations mentioned I can tell you that it don't work that way. Anyone that has worked in MCI management can tell you that MCI can't even conspire with itself. You have no idea

Re: [IFWP] IFWP: Founding Convention?

1999-02-24 Thread Jim Fleming
"Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches:" - Revelation 1:11 -Original Message- From: Bob Allisat [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jim Fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Einar Stefferud [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, February 24, 1999

Re: [IFWP] IFWP: Founding Convention?

1999-02-24 Thread Greg Skinner
Bob Allisat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What you write is sad but probably true. My hard analysis of these individuals leads me to conclude they are all now jockeying for position within ICANN rather than offering citizens any real alternatives or pursuing same. Perhaps they feel the

Re: [IFWP] Market Structure Failure

1999-02-24 Thread Jim Fleming
Does Pizza Hut own these ? http://Jump.to/Pizza-Hut http://This.is/Pizza-Hut What about the PizzaHut world in http://www.activeworlds.com ? ...should Pizza Hut have the rights to that ? What about... http://www.pizza.hut ? or http://www.hut.pizza ? and finally... http://www.hot.pizza Jim

Re: [IFWP] ICANN Supporters BOYCOTT !!

1999-02-24 Thread Jim Fleming
Subject: Re: [IFWP] ICANN Supporters BOYCOTT !! Hello Ronda, Heretofore, you have been annoying chime, but the following is pure FUD. What are your views on this group and Sun's involvement ? http://www.gip.org/gip1.htm @@@ http://www.gip.org/gip1.htm ... John Gage Director, Science Office

Re: [IFWP] IFWP: Founding Convention?

1999-02-24 Thread Bob Allisat
I, Bob Allisat, wrote: What you write is sad but probably true. My hard analysis of these individuals leads me to conclude they are all now jockeying for position within ICANN rather than offering citizens any real alternatives or pursuing same. Greg Skinner comments: = Perhaps they feel

Re: [IFWP] Market Structure Failure

1999-02-24 Thread Martin B. Schwimmer
At 10:46 AM 2/24/99 -0600, you wrote: Does Pizza Hut own these ? http://Jump.to/Pizza-Hut unassigned. http://This.is/Pizza-Hut unassigned. btw, this would be a different analysis from the urls discussed in the gopeds and ballysucks cases. What about the PizzaHut world in

[IFWP] Re: ICANN Supporters BOYCOTT !!

1999-02-24 Thread Greg Skinner
I don't have any problems with the idea of a self-governing Internet. If some people could have been found to campaign for office, I would have just voted for the ones whose platforms I felt were reasonable. However, the USG decided not to set things up that way. Unforunately for us. But I find

Re: [IFWP] Market Structure Failure

1999-02-24 Thread Jim Fleming
-Original Message- From: Martin B. Schwimmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip What about the PizzaHut world in http://www.activeworlds.com ? ...should Pizza Hut have the rights to that ? It's not a question of "should have the rights" but could a third party create and/or promote a PizzaHut

[IFWP] Internet Scaling vrs. ICANN

1999-02-24 Thread Ronda Hauben
On Vannevar's Bush's "Science: The Endless Frontier" and the ICANN/IANA problem: Following are some thoughts on trying to put what is happening into a context about the U.S. government transferring ownership and control over essential points of control of the Internet into a private sector

Re: [IFWP] IFWP: Founding Convention?

1999-02-24 Thread Roeland M.J. Meyer
There is more going on than is encompassed within these lists. At 11:16 AM 2/24/99 -0500, Bob Allisat wrote: Jim Fleming wrote: In my opinion, you have to let it go, or let the people go. If you study implosion and black holes (like ICANN) you will see that there is an event horizon. There

[IFWP] Re: ICANN Supporters BOYCOTT !!

1999-02-24 Thread Bob Allisat
Greg Skinner writes: ... I find no fault in companies donating money to get a non-profit effort going. In some circles, this is considered a sign of community spirit, not just taking from the community but giving Unfortunatly, in this particular instance, the non-profit effort in question

Re: [IFWP] IFWP: Founding Convention?

1999-02-24 Thread Jim Fleming
-Original Message- From: Roeland M.J. Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Jim Fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Einar Stefferud [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, February 24, 1999 11:43 AM Subject: Re: [IFWP] IFWP: Founding

[IFWP] Re: another guidelines reminder

1999-02-24 Thread Bob Allisat
Molly E. Shaffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please respect the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list prohibition on cross-posting. You have violated these guidelines in your various ICANN propaganda pieces so I will take the same liberties. There is not one law for you or your ICANN cohorts and another

Re: [IFWP] IFWP: Founding Convention?

1999-02-24 Thread Bob Allisat
Roeland Meyer writes: There is more going on than is encompassed within these lists. Pray tell. Why are we not being informed about events by those who are engaged in them? All of this back room, behind the scenes skulking! It makes one a little nauseous especially amongst all this talk

Re: [IFWP] Internet Scaling vrs. ICANN

1999-02-24 Thread Jim Fleming
-Original Message- From: Ronda Hauben [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip The real problem that the DNS wars show is that the U.S. government doesn't seem to be supporting the needed scientific research about how to provide for the scaling of the Internet. Ronda, In my opinion, you raise some

Re: [IFWP] Internet Scaling vrs. ICANN

1999-02-24 Thread William X. Walsh
On 24-Feb-99 Jim Fleming wrote: ...I think I will return to working on those...good luck to you all... Thank god. -- E-Mail: William X. Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 24-Feb-99 Time: 11:24:49 -- "We may well be on our

[IFWP] Internet Scaling vrs. ICANN

1999-02-24 Thread Javier A. Maestre
Ronda Alternatives seem to be the next: 1. A private, north American, organization under California jurisdiction or; 2. A public, north American, organization belonging US Government, also under US jurisdiction. I wonder where the difference is. US Government, now, let the rest of the people,

Re: [IFWP] Re: ICANN Supporters BOYCOTT !!

1999-02-24 Thread Greg Skinner
"Jim Fleming" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IRS laws are supposed to prevent non-profits from being formed that provide the same services as the for-profit sector. Why is the U.S. Government encouraging the creation of organizations that do not appear to conform to IRS regulations ? By your

[IFWP] Re: kmm027: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

1999-02-24 Thread Kerry Miller
Bob wrote, "kmm027: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" ? What a piece of derivative Allisat wannabe shite. No offense, Bob; I didnt mean to intrude on your intellectual territory. Admittedly it was too long, but nobody reads terse pieces in depth, or responds thoughtfully to much else

Re: [IFWP] Re: Time out Re: ORSC Protest of NIST Solicitation No. 52SBNT9C1020

1999-02-24 Thread Greg Skinner
Jim Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Dave Crocker wrote: The claim of US power [over NSI] is demonstrably false, by virtue of the continuing pattern of poor decision-making the USG has made with respect to NSI and If it's demonstrably false, demonstrate it. Prove that

[IFWP] Re: A few answers on ISO-3166...

1999-02-24 Thread A.M.Rutkowski
At 03:32 PM 2/24/99 , John Charles Broomfield wrote: Hi all, A little while back a few questions were raised on who/why some ccTLDs had come into existance. My question to the ISO-3166 maintenance agency: As someone who was responsible for coordinating this across rue Varembé in Geneva

[IFWP] Re: comment solicitation

1999-02-24 Thread Einar Stefferud
Thank you Molly for clarifying that no specific notice was posted regarding the draft that was added to your web site on 17 Feb, so that there was very little effective notice to the community. It should go without saying that you must not expect all of us to constantly check your web ICANN site

[IFWP] Is NSI a monopoly?

1999-02-24 Thread Greg Skinner
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,32865,00.html?st.ne.lh..ni

[IFWP] DNS internationalization

1999-02-24 Thread Greg Skinner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kerry Miller) wrote: If XML has (since 1995) put some running code under Carrasco's vision, why shouldnt we look at making the DNS 'upwardly compatible'? Even if it doesnt - God forbid! - resolve every legal issue, it would at least put them on a different ground. I don't

Re: [IFWP] ICANN Supporters

1999-02-24 Thread Joop Teernstra
At 11:14 24/02/99 +, Jim Dixon wrote: On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Bob Allisat wrote: http://www.icann.org/contributors.html ... + + The ICANN Board of Directors thanks the following contributors + to the ICANN Startup Fund for their generosity: + + Compaq Computer Corporation, $25,000 + IBM,

Re: [IFWP] Market Structure Failure

1999-02-24 Thread Kent Crispin
On Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 08:46:37PM -0800, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote: At 11:38 AM 2/20/99 -0800, Kent Crispin wrote: On Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 09:32:54AM -0800, Greg Skinner wrote: I am actually responding to Roeland's comment here... Roeland Meyer wrote: Sure, but first you'll have to

Re: [IFWP] INEG Dallas Conference and Liquor Jamboree Second day report

1999-02-24 Thread Richard J. Sexton
Jeff was met with great cheers when he joined the remaining members of the Grateful Dead for a rousing rendition of America the Beautiful. I understand they actually sang a song that starts: "If I had a gun, for every ace I'd drawn. I could own a town, the size of Abilene...

Re: [IFWP] Market Structure Failure

1999-02-24 Thread Milton Mueller
Now, THAT should be illegal. Martin B. Schwimmer wrote: californians.put.pineapples.on.pizza.

Re: [IFWP] Is NSI a monopoly?

1999-02-24 Thread Milton Mueller
From the article: "Since PGMedia filed its suit, however, the Internet landscape has changed drastically, throwing a monkey wrench into an already-complicated lawsuit. Last fall, the National Science Foundation passed responsibility for the Internet to Commerce Department, which in turn has laid

Re: [IFWP] Is NSI a monopoly?

1999-02-24 Thread Milton Mueller
the NSF and NSI say the proposed changes [ICANN] are another reason why the lawsuit ought to be thrown out of court. "This lawsuit represents an effort by plaintiff to derail that carefully developed process," attorneys for the NSF argued in a court brief filed last year. "In essence, plaintiff

Re: [IFWP] ICANN comments deadline

1999-02-24 Thread Dan Steinberg
I may not use the same words as Stef but I have to agree with the content. 3 days (or less if you live in the wrong time zone) to prepare a formal response (or even coherent comments)on some of these issues is totally inappropriate. As for Stef's "Sahdes of IAHC" commentary, my memory may be

[IFWP] Re: Singapore DNSO Meeting Schedule and Agenda - 2nd draft

1999-02-24 Thread Einar Stefferud
Hello Joop;-)... Yes, this should be documented as yet another biased ICANN/DNSO.ORG action, intended, but perhaps just a Freudian Slip, to bias the DNSO meeting attendance while looking like they are issuing an open invitation. Thanks for pointing out that it was to only sent to two list

RE: [IFWP] Is NSI a monopoly?

1999-02-24 Thread John B. Reynolds
Milton Mueller wrote: From the article: "Since PGMedia filed its suit, however, the Internet landscape has changed drastically, throwing a monkey wrench into an already-complicated lawsuit. Last fall, the National Science Foundation passed responsibility for the Internet to Commerce

Re: [IFWP] ICANN comments deadline

1999-02-24 Thread Molly Shaffer Van Houweling
I should have made it clearer that my recent message was just a reminder. The comment mechanism was originally announced on Feb. 8. At 06:58 PM 2/24/99 -0500, you wrote: I may not use the same words as Stef but I have to agree with the content. 3 days (or less if you live in the wrong time zone)

Re: [IFWP] Re: ICANN Supporters BOYCOTT !!

1999-02-24 Thread Ronda Hauben
Greg Skinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't have any problems with the idea of a self-governing Internet. If some people could have been found to campaign for office, I would have just voted for the ones whose platforms I felt were reasonable. However, the USG decided not to set things up that

Re: [IFWP] Re: ICANN Supporters BOYCOTT !!

1999-02-24 Thread Ronda Hauben
"Jim Fleming" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IRS laws are supposed to prevent non-profits from being formed that provide the same services as the for-profit sector. Why is the U.S. Government encouraging the creation of organizations that do not appear to conform to IRS regulations ? Not just

Re: [IFWP] INEG Dallas Conference and Liquor Jamboree Second day report

1999-02-24 Thread jeff Williams
Frank and all, Franky my boy, You have a interesting and wonderful sense of humor. Nice joke guy! LOL! ROFL! Frank Rizzo wrote: As the sun rose over Texas Stadium this morning the throngs of steak folders were in for a surprise. Dave Crocker, modest fellow that he is, gave the 2nd day

[IFWP] BOUNCE list@ifwp.org: Non-member submission from [Name.Space pg@name-space.com]

1999-02-24 Thread Richard J. Sexton
Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 20:34:48 -0500 (EST) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: BOUNCE [EMAIL PROTECTED]:Non-member submission from ["Name.Space" [EMAIL PROTECTED]] From name-space.com!pg Wed Feb 24 20:34:47 1999 Return-Path: [EMAIL

Re: [IFWP] Internet Scaling vrs. ICANN

1999-02-24 Thread Ronda Hauben
"Jim Fleming" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Ronda Hauben [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip The real problem that the DNS wars show is that the U.S. government doesn't seem to be supporting the needed scientific research about how to provide for the scaling of the Internet.

Re: [IFWP] ICANN comments deadline

1999-02-24 Thread Ellen Rony
Dan Steinberg wrote: I may not use the same words as Stef but I have to agree with the content. 3 days (or less if you live in the wrong time zone) to prepare a formal response (or even coherent comments)on some of these issues is totally inappropriate. What appears to be happening seems like a

Re: [IFWP] Internet Scaling vrs. ICANN

1999-02-24 Thread Ronda Hauben
"Javier A. Maestre" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ronda Alternatives seem to be the next: You should look at my proposal - as it was in fact the only proposal that did provide for genuine International collaboration and participation in solving the problem of putting IANA on a protected and more

[IFWP] Re: Singapore DNSO Meeting Schedule and Agenda - 2nd draft

1999-02-24 Thread Michael Sondow
Kilnam Chon a écrit: Please pay the meeting fee of US$50(S$80) per day at the door on 1999.3.2. Kilnam- You have four days of meetings listed (3/2,3,4,5). We're not being asked to pay US$200 to attend these, are we? On top of the fees for attending the ICANN meetings? I think you'd better

Re: [IFWP] Market Structure Failure

1999-02-24 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kent Crispin writes: Do you have access to a backbone router? No. But I work on networks with a whole lot more than 5 nodes, and a whole lot more horsepower than dual pentium 450's. Hmm, as in, mine is bigger then yours? ROFLPMP. el