On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Gordon Cook wrote: > I offer some evidence below as to the likely outcome. The quality of this evidence for some of your statements at least is highly questionable. > supporting organization - make no mistake about it. What's more, judging > by the identities of the sponsors of the january 22 meeting, it is very > likely that CIX and the major ISP's are now fully supportive of the stacked > ICANN/DNSO deck. [evidence 1 for ISP support:] > Why do I say this? Simple enlightenment when one of the best salesman of > internet connections in the world told me that he was not in favor of any > new top level domain names being added to the root servers. Who? > Here are some of the supporters of dnso.org.... ... > 13. ATT > > 14. Bell Atlantic Two telcos who bankroll middling and loss-making ISP divisions. > 15. Microsoft Your third "ISP" ? > That *these* are most of the people who the dnso.org folk think are the > stake holders in the DNS game speaks volumes about where their hearts and > minds are. This is scarcely evidence of ISP support for the Monterrey/Barcelona DNSO. In the real world ISPs are in general totally indifferent to it. -- Jim Dixon Managing Director VBCnet GB Ltd http://www.vbc.net tel +44 117 929 1316 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Member of Council Telecommunications Director Internet Services Providers Association EuroISPA EEIG http://www.ispa.org.uk http://www.euroispa.org tel +44 171 976 0679 tel +32 2 503 22 65 __________________________________________________ To receive the digest version instead, send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To SUBSCRIBE forward this message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNSUBSCRIBE, forward this message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Problems/suggestions regarding this list? Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___END____________________________________________
