Re: [IFWP] Re: Thoughts on ICANN

1999-07-05 Thread Richard J. Sexton
My general opinion is that for an expert user, the net was only slightly less useful or usable. (The challenge back then was to figure out ways to get your email through quickly and consistently.) If you were able to do that you were looked upon as an email guru. Things were much more confusing

Re: [IFWP] Re: Thoughts on ICANN

1999-07-05 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 10:33 AM 7/5/99 -0700, you wrote: On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 11:44:51AM -0400, Richard J. Sexton wrote: If the names council was 80% ORSC people I'd scream saying it was unbalanced and nobody would take it seriously. The bylaws, as implemented, fail to prevent capture by a single organzation

Re: [IFWP] Re: Anti-cybersquatting (Trademark Owners) Protection Act

1999-07-05 Thread Richard J. Sexton
That is not what I intended to convey. The basic idea is that domain names are there to be *used*, not *sold*. That way there be dragons. I'm no fan of domain speculation but if somebody offered me a million dollars for vrx.net I'd find a new domain pretty damn quick. Once you saying what

Re: [IFWP] Re: Thoughts on ICANN

1999-07-05 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 05:06 PM 7/5/99 -0700, you wrote: "Richard J. Sexton" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg Skinner wrote: It should also be pointed out that a major reason for the development of DNS was to eliminate some of the arcane email addressing systems, for the purpose of making things simpler

[IFWP] Trademark Stupidity

1999-07-05 Thread Richard J. Sexton
Here's a good one. Zenith watches, in Switzerland, makes the most accurate mechanical watches known. Rolex uses a de-tuned (God nows why) Zenith movement in their high end chrongraph. ("Daytona"). Samsung bought American company Zenith, and although they havn't made a watch, ever, the trademark

Re: [IFWP] Re: Anti-cybersquatting (Trademark Owners) Protection Act

1999-07-05 Thread Richard J. Sexton
Why not one-domain-per-customer? Why ? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] "They were of a mind to govern us and we were of a mind to govern ourselves."

Re: [IFWP] Re: Anti-cybersquatting (Trademark Owners) Protection Act

1999-07-05 Thread Richard J. Sexton
Why not one-domain-per-customer? Why ? A proposed solution to the "cybersquatting" problem Mr. Crispin raised (one person registering tons of generic words and jacking up the price for the "real" users). This is the solution that some ccTLDs have used. There are laws to deal with this...

Re: [IFWP] Trademark Stupidity

1999-07-05 Thread Richard J. Sexton
Here's a good one. Zenith watches, in Switzerland, makes the most accurate mechanical watches known. Rolex uses a de-tuned (God nows why) Zenith movement in their high end chrongraph. ("Daytona"). Samsung bought American company Zenith, and although they havn't made a watch, ever, the

Re: [IFWP] Re: Anti-cybersquatting (Trademark Owners) Protection Act

1999-07-05 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 12:17 AM 7/6/99 -0400, you wrote: A proposed solution to the "cybersquatting" problem Mr. Crispin raised (one person registering tons of generic words and jacking up the price for the "real" users). This is the solution that some ccTLDs have used. There are laws to deal with this...

Re: [IFWP] Re: Anti-cybersquatting (Trademark Owners) Protection Act

1999-07-05 Thread Richard J. Sexton
I could stand education on why it is so critical to have a separate registration for taurus.com. That can be argued either way, nut no matter that's a specific instanc and is more or less irrelevant. In the general case a single name ontology will always loose to a more free one. -- [EMAIL

Re: [IFWP] Re: Anti-cybersquatting (Trademark Owners) Protection A ct

1999-07-05 Thread Richard J. Sexton
While TMs are the big money thing here, there are other rights to names, as well. For example, I have a right to use the name "Crispin", in certain contexts. There are many others with a similar right to the name. It is not possible to prioritize among us, so first come first serve is a

Re: [IFWP] Re: Anti-cybersquatting (Trademark Owners) Protection Act

1999-07-06 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 12:21 AM 7/6/99 -0700, you wrote: On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 07:10:32PM -0400, Richard J. Sexton wrote: That is not what I intended to convey. The basic idea is that domain names are there to be *used*, not *sold*. That way there be dragons. I'm no fan of domain speculation

Re: [IFWP] Trademark Stupidity

1999-07-06 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 08:26 AM 7/6/99 -0400, you wrote: At 11:47 PM 7/5/99 -0400, Bill Lovell wrote: Hey, you engineering wonks had first shot at the naming policy. It just didn't take US law into account so now we overbearing know-it-alls have to come in and clean up the mess. Diane Cabell

Re: [IFWP] RE: Lou Gerstner on what IBM wants from ICANN

1999-07-06 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 09:06 AM 7/6/99 -0700, you wrote: On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 09:03:13AM -0700, Christopher Ambler wrote: Yes, especially since NSI is doing everything it can to torpedo ICANN. Without ICANN there is no realistic way to get new TLDs in the IANA root, not for years to come. Wrong.

Re: [IFWP] Governments will control domain names and addresses, Twomey threatens

1999-07-06 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 03:42 PM 7/6/99 -0400, you wrote: At 06:07 PM 7/5/99 , Michael Sondow wrote: Sydney Morning Herald, July 1999 Net dispute: Govt may step in "Governments will end up taking control of the distribution of Internet addresses if the Internet industry cannot resolve its differences, according

Re: [IFWP] Re: Anti-cybersquatting (Trademark Owners) Protection Act

1999-07-06 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 04:32 PM 7/6/99 -0400, you wrote: Isn't there a famous case in England that shot down people who were camping on domain names with the intent to Yes. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] "They were of a mind to govern us and we were of a mind to govern ourselves."

[IFWP] BOUNCE list@ifwp.org: Non-member submission from [Sheffo, Joe jsheffo@alexanderogilvy.com]

1999-07-06 Thread Richard J. Sexton
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Re: [IFWP] ICANN position on multiple roots

1999-07-06 Thread Richard J. Sexton
Any word on this ? At 06:39 PM 7/3/99 -0400, Jonathan Zittrain wrote: Esther, Mike, Joe, Is there any particular ICANN view on efforts to set up alternative root systems? I'd figured that ICANN would be neutral on it--it's got a mandate to (eventually, if all proceeds a particular way)

Re: [IFWP] More detail on DNSO WG-A

1999-07-07 Thread Richard J. Sexton
http://www.dnso.org/wgroups/wg-a/Archives/msg6.html My God. That's the scariest thing I've ever seen. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] "They were of a mind to govern us and we were of a mind to govern ourselves."

Re: [IFWP] More detail on DNSO WG-A

1999-07-07 Thread Richard J. Sexton
I hate to say I told you so, but: http://www.open-rsc.org/inc/bylaws/ Last revised Oct 8/98 8:02 pm EST Commented version This is a separate proposal to the NTIA from ORSC. The significant differences between propsals submitted so far and ours are: 1.Membership

Re: [IFWP] Re: ICANN Stealth appointment

1999-07-07 Thread Richard J. Sexton
I'm really glad Brian has finally entered the fray and hope to see more of this. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] "They were of a mind to govern us and we were of a mind to govern ourselves."

Re: [IFWP] BOUNCE list@ifwp.org: Admin request of type /\bcancel\b/i at line 2

1999-07-07 Thread Richard J. Sexton
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Re: [IFWP] Re: Anti-cybersquatting (Trademark Owners) Protection Act

1999-07-07 Thread Richard J. Sexton
You'd have to poll them. I don't think you could impose it here; barn door and all that. The down side is that they didn't allow personal domain registrations, although I believe they are about to do so under a second level domain (? bing.per.no or something like that). If strictly enforced, it

Re: [IFWP] Red Herring on RealNames

1999-07-08 Thread Richard J. Sexton
demands a central authority. There is a business here -- a big one. Tell the poeple on IRC. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] "They were of a mind to govern us and we were of a mind to govern ourselves."

Re: [IFWP] Re: ISOC's 1995 Master Plan for Controling DNS published below

1999-07-08 Thread Richard J. Sexton
I was actually making reference to the Papers on electronic commerce that were issued by the White House in June 1997 and updated in October 1999. There is still an enormous amount of work to be done to fashion a framework for electronic commerce which addresses the significance of digital

RE: [IFWP] RE: who tells the quill holder what to write?

1999-07-08 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 09:54 PM 7/8/99 -0400, you wrote: At 09:45 PM 7/8/99 , Jon Zittrain wrote: Gene, I always figured that the IETF approach is what Jon IANA more or less represented, for better or worse--with the IETF's degree of open participation. Indeed, much of the structure of the DNS is expressed

Re: [IFWP] a post-ICANN world

1999-07-08 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 06:14 PM 7/8/99 -0700, you wrote: On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 09:07:26PM -0400, A.M. Rutkowski wrote: These would seem to include: 1) funding someone part time at ISI or CNRI to maintain the protocol registry files. 2) some coordination mechanism among the regional IP registries that

Re: [IFWP] Re: Anti-cybersquatting (Trademark Owners) Protection Act

1999-07-08 Thread Richard J. Sexton
I fail to see how an SLD is eminently more usable than a 3LD, etc. So ? If you were czar of the entire known internet that might mean something but you're not and it doesn't. Tell you what, you observe and respect other peoples ideas and then you can expect the same from them. I assert the

Re: [IFWP] RE: who tells the quill holder what to write?

1999-07-08 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 07:47 PM 7/8/99 -0700, you wrote: On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 09:54:49PM -0400, Jay Fenello wrote: "Shared registries" were not promoted by the entrepreneurs that I knew, it was a business model promoted by the IAHC! Shared registries is also the business model promoted by the White Paper;

Re: [IFWP] RE: who tells the quill holder what to write?

1999-07-08 Thread Richard J. Sexton
The fact remains, the shared registry model is in the White Paper. That's why NSI is going through these contortions -- perhaps you've noticed? This decision was made before the green and white papers came out. Those of us in the room with Magaziner in New York were told "the NSI monopoly

Re: [IFWP] RE: who tells the quill holder what to write?

1999-07-08 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 12:15 AM 7/9/99 -0400, Jon Zittrain wrote: The best way to make the entrepreneurial squabbles dissipate would be *tons* of new TLDs. Could you say that again a little louder please? I'm not sure I heard you. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] "They were of a mind to govern us and we

Re: [IFWP] RE: who tells the quill holder what to write?

1999-07-08 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 05:38 AM 7/9/99 GMT, William X. Walsh wrote: On Fri, 9 Jul 1999 00:38:08 -0400 (EDT), "Richard J. Sexton" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:04 AM 7/9/99 -0400, Jon Zittrain wrote: shrug I just meant to list the sorts of pressures that have moved DNS issues squarely out of

Re: [IFWP] FW: [ga] IFWP list and Internet Governance

1999-07-09 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 09:18 AM 7/9/99 +0200, Jean-Michel Becar wrote: Very interesting messge of Roberto. Jean-Michel Bécar Really ? Which part did you like the best ? -- Richard Sexton | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://dns.vrx.net/tech/rootzone http://killifish.vrx.nethttp://www.mbz.org

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1999-07-09 Thread Richard J. Sexton
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Re: [IFWP] Re: Anti-cybersquatting (Trademark Owners) Protection Act

1999-07-09 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 09:20 AM 7/9/99 -0700, you wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William X. Walsh) wrote: Since you seem to think marketing is the answer, lets let the market prove it. Lets count registrations. Case closed. I disagree. Supply me with some proof that all other factors equal, SLD registrations do

[IFWP] UNSUBSCRIBE list apisan@servidor.unam.mx

1999-07-10 Thread Richard J. Sexton
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1999-07-10 Thread Richard J. Sexton
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Re: [IFWP] Re: The gTLD constituency

1999-07-10 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 01:33 PM 7/10/99 -0400, Jon Zittrain wrote: If instead you see ICANN as having a public trust function... No. We don't. The names of files I use on my computer are none of the publics damn business. It's between me and other people that write to this namespace. Most of the general public

Re: [IFWP] A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace

1999-07-10 Thread Richard J. Sexton
The Declaration is not a formal EFF position and I for one am not entirely comfortable with its tone. Esther You'll probably hate this then: http://vrx.net/declaration.html -- Richard Sexton | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://dns.vrx.net/tech/rootzone http://killifish.vrx.net

Re: [IFWP] Re: Rule of law vs. consensus

1999-07-10 Thread Richard J. Sexton
The depth of your thinking would put a jackrabbit to shame. Is there consensus that this sort of langauge is unacceptible - personal insults should warrent an apology ? -- Richard Sexton | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://dns.vrx.net/tech/rootzone http://killifish.vrx.nethttp://www.mbz.org

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1999-07-10 Thread Richard J. Sexton
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Re: [IFWP] Re: who tells the

1999-07-11 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 02:14 AM 7/12/99 +0200, Onno Hovers wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Lovell wrote: Would NTIA, ICANN and you and I not all be better off if ICANN immediately took over the "A" server, stuck it at a neutral place such as NIST out of the hands of ALL of the wheeler dealers, took over

[IFWP] Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender

1999-07-11 Thread Richard J. Sexton
I've had to remove Craig as his mail has been bouncing for a while. Could somebody remind him to resubscribe when he asks somebody what happened to the IFWP mail? Return-Path: Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 21:44:00 -0400 (EDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mail Delivery

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1999-07-12 Thread Richard J. Sexton
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Re: [IFWP] Re: Fw: Re: [ga] Letter from Mike Roberts re: gTLD Constituency Group

1999-07-13 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 01:16 AM 7/14/99 +0200, you wrote: ICANN has made it VERY clear they ARE restricting entry into the IANA root The default root, and you would be surprised how many people believe that if they don't point to it, their dns/internet will be broken. You might also be surprised by the

Re: [IFWP] Re: Fw: Re: [ga] Letter from Mike Roberts re: gTLD Constituency

1999-07-13 Thread Richard J. Sexton
When we have competitive gTLD REGISTRIES, this indeed will be a consideration for many, especially when it comes to past history. People DO share experiences. I'm on a number of lists where people do just that. They will share experiences and make decisions based on their own experience, and

[IFWP] It's a feature, not a bug

1999-07-13 Thread Richard J. Sexton
What if I said "use my root and I'll point you to versions of the TLDs that filter out known porn sites." More like "give you access to the porn sites you get get with *your* ISP with the government controlled root". -- Richard Sexton | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://dns.vrx.net/tech/rootzone

Re: [IFWP] Re: switching among alternative root zones

1999-07-13 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 09:25 PM 7/13/99 -0400, Jon Zittrain wrote: Richard, To my knowledge the software allowed individual nntp server admins to decide whether to take all newsgroups or only those they specifically approved. Yes but that was a decade later -- Richard Sexton | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

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1999-07-14 Thread Richard J. Sexton
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[IFWP] Craigs compromise

1999-07-14 Thread Richard J. Sexton
http://www.dnso.org/wgroups/wg-c-1/Archives/msg00056.html -- Richard Sexton | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://dns.vrx.net/tech/rootzone http://killifish.vrx.nethttp://www.mbz.orghttp://lists.aquaria.net Bannockburn, Ontario, Canada, 70 72 280SE, 83 300SD +1 (613) 473-1719

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1999-07-14 Thread Richard J. Sexton
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1999-07-14 Thread Richard J. Sexton
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Re: [IFWP] Re: Membership supermajorities

1999-07-14 Thread Richard J. Sexton
How do you deal with a clueless membership? Say they voted unanimously to make anybody with a nameserver pay $1 everytime sombody used it for a lookup and if you didn't pay this you couldn't run a nameserver period. How do you deal with things like that ? -- Richard Sexton | [EMAIL

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1999-07-15 Thread Richard J. Sexton
PM 7/14/99 -0400, you wrote: Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 11:07:56 -0400 (EDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard J. Sexton (At work)) Path: ns3.vrx.net!news2.best.com!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!su-news-hub1.bb

RE: [IFWP] Re: personal attacks

1999-07-15 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 06:57 PM 7/15/99 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree that there may be cultural differences, but I disagree this being one of these. Maybe because that, among all people on the Earth, Italians are among the most suspicious about Governments. Or maybe because our Constitution (sorry to

RE: [IFWP] Media Bias and the Takeover of the Internet

1999-07-16 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 10:51 AM 7/16/99 +0200, you wrote: I have seen press coverage that is biased and ultra-biased, in one direction and the other, Can you give some examples ? -- Richard Sexton | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://dns.vrx.net/tech/rootzone http://killifish.vrx.nethttp://www.mbz.org

Re: [IFWP] Why fail on purpose?

1999-07-16 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 06:03 AM 7/16/99 -0400, Joe Sims wrote: significant funds soon are not good. There is a serious catch-22 here that for some ICANN critics is probably not coincidental: complain about the lack of an elected Board, and simultaneously make it impossible to generate the funds to elect a truly

Re: [IFWP] Why fail on purpose?

1999-07-16 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 09:38 AM 7/16/99 -0400, Jay Fenello wrote: -- The law firm of Jones Day, your employer, has billed ICANN for $585,000, substantially more than required to simply incorporating a non-profit entity, and/or to hold elections. ORSC spent $175 to incorporate, including bylaws that if ICANN

Re: [IFWP] Why fail on purpose?

1999-07-16 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 12:40 PM 7/16/99 -0700, you wrote: Patrick Greenwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If ICANN were a community-based organization as was envisioned, instead of the monstrosity it has become, it would be reasonable to ask the community for assistance in gather resources to hold elections. But

Re: [IFWP] CATO on ICANN

1999-07-16 Thread Richard J. Sexton
An explosion and fire at a Bell Canada CO in downtown Toronto cut off my net access for the whole day today, which was mildly traumatic ;-}. This is alsi why the IFWP list was uncommunacative for a few hours today. -- Richard Sexton | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://dns.vrx.net/tech/rootzone

Re: [IFWP] Why fail on purpose

1999-07-17 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 09:42 AM 7/17/99 -0400, you wrote: Joop's site is terrific. It's very clever and easy to navigate. It is a very nice polling site. I estimate his cost for the three trips at around $4500. David Johnson has an excellent one also. Add the fact that it isn't just the votes that have to be

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1999-07-17 Thread Richard J. Sexton
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1999-07-17 Thread Richard J. Sexton
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Re: [IDNO-DISCUSS] Re: [IFWP] Why fail on purpose

1999-07-17 Thread Richard J. Sexton
Joop's statement about passwords was naive, because a fraudulent voter *with* a password is no better than a fraudulent voter *without* a password. The primary problem remains, as Diane pointed out, authenticating the voters in the first place. -- Kent Crispin

Re: [IFWP] Why fail on purpose?

1999-07-17 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 03:01 PM 7/17/99 -0700, you wrote: On Sat, Jul 17, 1999 at 04:32:37PM -0400, Gene Marsh wrote: There are clearly other, higher, priorities. The White Paper, the Green Paper, the MoU with NTIA all quite clearly state that the stability of the Internet is the highest priority of all, etc.

[IFWP] voting

1999-07-17 Thread Richard J. Sexton
What's a bigger problem, fraud ot apathy: http://www.arin.net/archives/arin-members.9811 "So far we have only received 17 ballots. That's right, of the many, many members we have in ARIN, only 17 have cast votes. Now c'mon folks, we have more than 17 nominees!"

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1999-07-17 Thread Richard J. Sexton
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1999-07-17 Thread Richard J. Sexton
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[IFWP] BOUNCE list@ifwp.org: Non-member submission from [Dave Crocker dcrocker@brandenburg.com]

1999-07-17 Thread Richard J. Sexton
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[IFWP] BOUNCE list@ifwp.org: Non-member submission from [Andy Gardner andy@navigator.co.nz]

1999-07-17 Thread Richard J. Sexton
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[IFWP] BOUNCE list@ifwp.org: Non-member submission from [Dave Crocker dcrocker@brandenburg.com]

1999-07-17 Thread Richard J. Sexton
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[IFWP] BOUNCE list@ifwp.org: Non-member submission from [Dave Crocker dcrocker@brandenburg.com]

1999-07-17 Thread Richard J. Sexton
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[IFWP] All part of the open process

1999-07-18 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 02:42 PM 7/18/99 -0400, Joe Sims wrote: Jay, it was a hard lesson, but I've learned that nothing useful comes from engaging with you, so I don't plan to. Can you *do* that ? -- Richard Sexton | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://dns.vrx.net/tech/rootzone http://killifish.vrx.net

Re: Re[2]: [IDNO-DISCUSS] Re: [IFWP] Why fail on purpose

1999-07-18 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 03:27 PM 7/18/99 -0700, you wrote: Sunday, July 18, 1999, 8:54:33 AM, Dave Crocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In any event my position, now, is that IDNO does not represent the stated constituency and has much too flawed a history to justify its being selected. In other words, since the

Re: [IFWP] Where'd the money go?

1999-07-18 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 03:53 PM 7/18/99 -0700, you wrote: I hear that ICANN has run out of money. Have they published a statement showing the expenses to date. (I, for one, wouldn't want to to pay the $1 domain name tax [not to mention the probable eventual $$ for IP address space tax] when there is no published

[IFWP] How to use new domains

1999-07-18 Thread Richard J. Sexton
Which certainly has its appealing aspects. But 'splain something: I'm sitting here on, say, a xxx.com or a xxx.net ISP, and I want to search a .per or a .biz, or more exactly I want to search on whatever, some of which may happen to be on .per or .biz. Alternatively, I want all the people on

Re: [IFWP] How to use new domains

1999-07-19 Thread Richard J. Sexton
I guess I don't understand your question then, My apologies. At 11:36 PM 7/18/99 -0700, you wrote: At 12:29 AM 7/19/99 -0400, you wrote: Which certainly has its appealing aspects. But 'splain something: I'm sitting here on, say, a xxx.com or a xxx.net ISP, and I want to search a .per or a

[IFWP] BOUNCE list@ifwp.org: Non-member submission from [Dave Crocker dcrocker@brandenburg.com]

1999-07-19 Thread Richard J. Sexton
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[IFWP] HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THE IFWP LIST

1999-07-19 Thread Richard J. Sexton
There is a form at http://lists.ifwp.org that you can use to quickly unsubscribe yourself. Posting "unsubscribe" to the IFWP list will not work. -- Richard Sexton | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://dns.vrx.net/tech/rootzone http://killifish.vrx.nethttp://www.mbz.org

[IFWP] [Fwd: Poisson status] Example of ICANN's lack of proper accountability to the MOU with NTIA

1999-07-19 Thread Richard J. Sexton
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Re: [IFWP] Why fail on purpose?

1999-07-19 Thread Richard J. Sexton
What level would be fair? I don't know. But as domains currently cost an individual $35 a year, one would hope the cost would be lower than this. $5 - $10. There was some consenss on this in Geneva. -- Richard Sexton | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://dns.vrx.net/tech/rootzone

[IFWP] A D M I N S T R I V I A

1999-07-19 Thread Richard J. Sexton
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Re: [IFWP] ICANN's Internet Community - Fact and Fancy

1999-07-19 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 11:35 PM 7/19/99 -0400, you wrote: Richard, All of the TLDA postings, all of the Tom Bliley messages, all of the Esther Dyson messages, all the messages to James Love, all the messages to Rep. Tom Sawyer (my representative), and more. None of them are there. Somboy noticed recently that

Re: [IFWP] ICANN's Internet Community - Fact and Fancy

1999-07-19 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 07:05 PM 7/19/99 -0700, you wrote: On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 10:02:01PM -0400, Gene Marsh wrote: It is interesting, is it not, that the messages I forwarded to the list never appeared there. It rejects cross-postings. Since when ?

Re: [IFWP] ICANN's Internet Community - Fact and Fancy

1999-07-20 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 08:00 AM 7/20/99 -0700, you wrote: I actually meant to include the poised list as an example of a place where I have seen a good amount of support for ICANN as well. --gregbo How many people is that ? -- Richard Sexton | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://dns.vrx.net/tech/rootzone

[IFWP] BOUNCE list@ifwp.org: Non-member submission from [Roeland M.J. Meyer rmeyer@mhsc.com]

1999-07-20 Thread Richard J. Sexton
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[IFWP] BOUNCE list@ifwp.org: Non-member submission from [Diane Cabell dcabell@law.harvard.edu]

1999-07-20 Thread Richard J. Sexton
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[IFWP] BOUNCE list@ifwp.org: Non-member submission from [Dave Crocker dcrocker@brandenburg.com]

1999-07-20 Thread Richard J. Sexton
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[IFWP] BOUNCE list@ifwp.org: Non-member submission from [Roeland M.J. Meyer rmeyer@mhsc.com]

1999-07-20 Thread Richard J. Sexton
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[IFWP] BOUNCE list@ifwp.org: Non-member submission from [Roeland M.J. Meyer rmeyer@mhsc.com]

1999-07-20 Thread Richard J. Sexton
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[IFWP] BOUNCE list@ifwp.org: Non-member submission from [Dave Crocker dcrocker@brandenburg.com]

1999-07-20 Thread Richard J. Sexton
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[IFWP] BOUNCE list@ifwp.org: Non-member submission from [Roeland M.J. Meyer rmeyer@mhsc.com]

1999-07-20 Thread Richard J. Sexton
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[IFWP] ICANN position on multiple roots

1999-07-20 Thread Richard J. Sexton
17 days and counting... Esther, Mike, Joe, Is there any particular ICANN view on efforts to set up alternative root systems? I'd figured that ICANN would be neutral on it--it's got a mandate to (eventually, if all proceeds a particular way) maintain and manage the contents of the legacy

[IFWP] everything that has happened is explained in here, I'm sure

1999-07-21 Thread Richard J. Sexton
.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Only a dead fish floats downstream. Richard J. Sexton [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.killi.net +1 (613) 473 1719 Maitland House, Bannockburn, Ontario, CANADA, K0K 1Y0 -- Richard Sexton | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://dns.vrx.net/tech/roo

Re: [IFWP] Amendment process

1999-07-21 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 12:01 AM 7/22/99 +, Kerry Miller wrote: In this connection, the 'resolution' in introduced (http://www.icann.org/dnso/dnso-nc-amendments.htm ) "The following proposed Amendments to the ICANN Bylaws are intended to implement an evident consensus among participants in the ICANN process

Re: [IFWP] What I would have said...

1999-07-21 Thread Richard J. Sexton
This was the IFWP - The International Federation for the White Paper. Thats "Forum" not "Federation". Nice missive, Karl. Very nice. -- Richard Sexton | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://dns.vrx.net/tech/rootzone http://killifish.vrx.nethttp://www.mbz.orghttp://lists.aquaria.net

RE: [IFWP] Media Bias - Reuters

1999-07-22 Thread Richard J. Sexton
I think Jay's concern - and mine also, is this. There are currently 248 companies selling domains under top level domanis they manage that are currently in the legacy root servers. Then, on the other hand, we have maybe a few dozen companies that also want to manage a top level domain domain

[IFWP] bias in general

1999-07-22 Thread Richard J. Sexton
Why is the congressinal committee so hung up on NSI saynig "consensus" and implying it means NSI consensus, yet whenever Mike Roberts or Esther say "it was consensus of the Inetrnet community" this is not questioned? -- Richard Sexton | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://dns.vrx.net/tech/rootzone

Re: [IFWP] Congressional Hearings - Soundbyte

1999-07-22 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 11:33 AM 7/22/99 -0800, you wrote: My nomination for the best soundbyte of today's Congressional Hearing on "Domain Name System Privatization: Is ICANN Out of Control?" "Consensus is a lot like pornography. You know it when you see it." (Sorry, I don't have

[IFWP] BOUNCE list@ifwp.org: Non-member submission from [Meeks, Brock Brock.Meeks@MSNBC.COM]

1999-07-23 Thread Richard J. Sexton
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