George, I thought you did a good, and upstanding, job at explaining the problems with WLS. The two most disturbing are effectively anti-consumer and anti-competition.
Those folks with nothing to gain, see the whole picture, including the downside. You are, obviously, one of them. Personally, I support your view 100%. WLS should have been a non-issued long ago. Thanks, Tuesday, May 21, 2002, 3:59:43 PM, Loren Stocker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: LS> Hi George, LS> Great question today!!!! LS> There is no answer. It's like asking a drunk, "what would it take to quit LS> drinking?" LS> Best, Loren LS> The Most Evil One! LS> www.EVIL.biz LS> George Kirikos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: LS> Hi folks, LS> It was nice to hear some of you today at the WLS conference call. My LS> own statement is at: LS> http://www.loffs.com/wls/ LS> for anyone who might have missed the call (I gave the URL LS> www.intangibles.com during the call, but will take it down from there LS> in a few days), although I deviated from my statement a few times. LS> Transcripts were taken, so everyone can read those when they are ready. LS> In summary, Verisign saw absolutely *no* support from participants of LS> the call, and some extremely strong opposition. I was particularly LS> pleased to see that Dotster (who runs NameWinner) intends to take legal LS> action, in the unlikely scenario that WLS is approved, to block it. I LS> applaud them, and would support their effort. Nice to hear from Paul LS> Stahura, Thomas, the two Dans, Rick Wesson, Loren, Jeff, Danny, LS> Marilyn, and others too. :) LS> Near the end of the call, I asked Chuck Gomes the simple question LS> "Under what conditions would Verisign pull the proposal from the table, LS> given the huge opposition to it." He had no answer. Maybe Verisign LS> never imagines a scenario where they can't get their way. I look LS> forward to tomorrow's call, to see if he has an answer then. LS> My prediction is that given the overwhelming opposition displayed ICANN LS> will decide to invoke the formal consensus process for this proposal. LS> Hopefully other related issues, such as a Uniform Deletions Policy, and LS> better WHOIS information, will be addressed at that time. Assuming LS> Verisign doesn't sue ICANN, I figure that consensus process would take LS> 3 to 6 months, and not come out in favour of WLS in any event. LS> Sincerely, LS> George Kirikos LS> http://www.kirikos.com/ LS> __________________________________________________ LS> Do You Yahoo!? LS> LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience LS> http://launch.yahoo.com ---- Don Brown - Dallas, Texas USA Internet Concepts, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.inetconcepts.net PGP Key ID: 04C99A55 (972) 788-2364 Fax: (972) 788-5049 Providing Internet Solutions Worldwide - An eDataWeb Affiliate ----
