William and all,
Ok WIlliam, you have made comments and statements like this in the
past, an they never came to pass. I suspect this is primarily due to
a lack of proper funding or inability to "Pull it off" as many other's have
experienced as well. ORSC has Stef has stated clearly is not in a
financial position to really offer a alternative that would be stable and
viable over the long term. Although ORSC's ideas and considerations
are indeed laudable, they seemingly lack the personal and financial
commitment. As such, along with your statements here, I am afraid
that it is a bit much for me and INEGroup to swallow at this time.
As I personally offered to Stef to put up or shut up already several times
and have the financial resources to assist them co-operatively I am
AT THIS TIME doubtful that ORSC has the level of commitment to
do as you and a few others have suggested. It is however technically
feasible and potentially viable, but it takes allot of MONEY and personal
DEDICATION to make it happen.
We [INEGroup] along with three VC organizations that I personally
have discussed this potential opportunity with are willing to pony up
the VAST majority of the funding as well as offer quite a bit of
other assistance in terms of marketing and technical expertise, to
assist in a SERIOUS effort in this area separate from NSI as well
as ICANN.
William X. Walsh wrote:
> For the last 24 hours this has been a matter of a great deal of thought for me.
>
> Even has I finished work late last night, I was willing to give NSI the benefit
> of the doubt and see what Chuck had to say today.
>
> But today's posts show me exactly where NSI stands.
>
> I've decided I am going to change a major position I have held as a result. A
> position I held because I insisted on believing in the process, and in the
> system, that when all was said and done we would have a fair and open
> structure.
>
> As such I criticized those who participated in activities that I felt were
> outside the scope of the process. This included such activities as the Open
> Root Server Confederation's "Staging Root Server."
>
> In discussions with other Service Providers, and after some long and deep
> thought on my own this morning, I have decided to change my views. And to
> actively encourage others to do the same.
>
> Beginning in just a few hours, DSo Internet will turn on a root server serving
> the "root" zone as pulled from the ORSC staging root, which includes a number of
> TLDs not currently in the NSI operated USG controlled root. Further we will be
> strongly encouraging other Service Providers to do the same. I know of at least
> 4 providers who will be pointing their hints file to ORSC staging root servers.
>
> I further encourage all TLD operators with TLDs in the ORSC root zone to secure
> a second level domain that is equal to the tld they operate, perhaps in one of
> the ccTLDs, to do as Iperdome does and offer a functional domain to those whose
> providers will not point to an alternative root. I'd be happy to work with
> them to research their options in this area. It is only with operational
> facilities that this can be used to our mutual benefit (and indeed the benefit
> of the entire community). I would seriously urge CORE to drop all their
> differences with the ORSC and join these efforts as well.
>
> It is time to work around the problem.
>
> I have given this a lot of thought, and while I will not support the efforts of
> the AURSC/IRSC, since I see it as nothing more than a power grab by one main
> person and people who think it would be cool to be a part of it, I see the ORSC
> effort as much more fair and open operation, with an open non-exclusionary
> decision making model, etc. Even when I was a detractor of this operation, my
> views and opinions were listened to and discussed as an equal participant.
>
> DSo Internet fully supports the efforts of the ORSC staging root, and will be
> encouraging its use wherever that may be possible. We will be working on a
> position paper on this issue for posting on our website this week.
>
> ----------------------------------
> William X. Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> General Manager, DSo Internet Services
> Date: 21-Mar-99
> Time: 14:07:29
> ----------------------------------
Regards,
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Jeffrey A. Williams
CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng.
Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC.
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