Roeland, Paul and all,
Essentially and simply put Roeland is correct here. One must not loose
sight of the fact that NSI is owned by the SAIC as well, in addition NSI
under the co-operative agreement and the September extension agreement
with the NTIA, stated clearly in February that they intended to comply
completely with that ALL of the aspects of that agreement as well as
the extension, which we are seeing the results of in the past couple of
days now.
It is also important to understand the ICANN, is attempting to put together
and non-profit organization under and MoU with the NTIA in arresting the
DNS, protocol, and IP allocation registries under their control using the
"Accreditation Guidelines" which in many's minds and opinions are
extremely anti-competitive in their nature, although the ICANN are
saying that those "Accreditation Guidelines" only apply to the first
five new DNS registrars to be testing the SRS. If you believe that
nonsense I have some beach front property in New Mexico to sell you!
Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
> Paul,
>
> You're going after the wrong guys. NSI doesn't have the authority, DOC/NTIA
> does. NSI is blocking entries, in to the root servers, on direct orders
> from DOC/NTIA, and NSF before them. The USG routinely indemnifies its
> contractors as long as they follow orders.
>
> At 10:37 PM 3/20/99 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >Well, folks, now that NSI has antitrust immunity,
> >NSI-CANN do as they please.....
> >at least until Name.Space wins its appeal.
> >
> >regards,
> >
> >Paul Garrin
> >Name.Space, Inc.
> >http://name.space.xs2.net
> >
> >
> >>>Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 18:43:57 -0800
> >>>To: Paul Goldstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>>From: Bill Lovell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>>Subject: Re: InterNIC + WorldNIC = NSI Registrary
> >>>
> >>>At 07:31 PM 3/20/99 -0500, you wrote:
> >>>>"So, come to Network Solutions to Register the Web Address you need...
> >>>>we're
> >>>>the dot com people� and we've put more .com, .net and .org Web Addresses
> >>>>into service than every other Internet company combined."
> >>>
> >>>This is the part of it that absolutely slays me. USG contractor NSI had the
> >>>SOLE
> >>>authority to register .com, .net, .org, but now the transmuted NSOL, as
> >>>it now
> >>>appears on the stock exchange, is taking the credit for what NSI did and is
> >>>thus commercially claiming credit for what we taxpayers (and all you ISPs
> >>>and
> >>>your customers) paid for. Not only that, you've all been sucked into the
> >>>TM/DN
> >>>cauldron: how many thousands upon thousands of registries were made, just
> >>>because NSI created in the minds of everyone the TM = DN equivalence, and
> >>>thereby STARTED the Oklahoma land rush among all the speculators?
> >>>
> >>>And how many of you received in the mail NSI's "Your client's company or
> >>>brand name is up for grabs in more than 80 countries. Make sure you claim
> >>>it first." I sure got one, and I'm no ISP. The letter absolutely PUSHES the
> >>>notion that Joe Schmuck in Afghanistan or wherever might register YOUR
> >>>NAME -- so you'd BETTER GET IT FIRST. I may puke.
> >>>
> >>>These things have a way of coming back to haunt.
> >>>
> >>>Bill Lovell
> >>>
> >>>>Paul Goldstone
> >>>>Domain-It!
> >>>>
> >
> >
>
> ___________________________________________________
> Roeland M.J. Meyer -
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> ___________________________________________________
> KISS ... gotta love it!
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