OK - I've forwarded your response to the appropriate places so as to
extenguish the romours.
On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Ross Wm. Rader wrote:
> > It is also the corporate ploy of testing
> > the market.
>
> Not even close. We have no intentions of ever launching our own root, or
> participating in any commercial non-ICANN/DOC sponsored root. Further, we
> are not even interested in participating in a volunteer, non-profit,
> not-for-profit variation of the aforementioned.
Ross - do you have a copy of the agreement you signed with ICANN to become
a registrar - or can you point me to a resource which has a copy of the
standard agreement.
I've heard it includes a very clear clause that "TUCOWS is
prohibited" from running it's own root servers. I gather from discussions
on domain-policy that is the case with NSI - and I'm just wondering if
your agreements restricts you too?
> Not really. Busy OTOH, definitely. .moo is not a commercial grade release.
> It is a small-scale implementation of our Registry System software
> platform to act as a demonstration for potential customers (ccTLD, new
> gTLD registry operators). We simply don't have the time right now to bring
> it up to full operational scale, nor have I had a chance to grab the root
> server information from our dev group and run operational tests against
> it.
OK - well when your ready - were ready. Just remember - you may lose the
spirit ;-)
> We have no interest in running up against very well documented walls.
> While you are right that we have an excellent distribution network, it
> doesn't come close to the critical mass of NServers required to actually
> launch a fully competitive root system. We have much more realistic plans
> for the distribution channel.
You'll never gain any competitive advantage in the roots. No one
will. The root is now in the process of being decentralized and I expect
many players. But you have the ability to capture a small percentage
using your exiting resources.
> I really have no public view on your political stance either way Joe,
There's noting political about this. I doubt you can express any
political opinion from me. My position is strictly technical, and that is
that the user ultimately controls his view of the root and ICANN has no
exclusive control over the root. That's not a political position - that's
a technical FACT.
Anyway - send me provate email with some zen resources. My schooling is
mainly in occidental theology and i'd be interested in knowing a bit more
about this zen stuff. The only thing my professors told me about zen is
that people need to be saved from all that oriental stuff ;-) Don't worry
- I never paid much attention in class.
Regards
Joe Baptista
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