I have heard now from two sources that ISOC, which kept the non commercial
domain holders constituency from being recognized in Berlin by saying it
couldn't give a milimeter on behalf of its 30 constituents, is now engaged
in a smear campaign against meuller and sondow, a campaign squarely aimed
at getting the ACM to repudiate its involvement with Professor Meuller and
Kathy Klieman on the grounds that meuller and klieman allegedly sold out to
the "infamous" Michael Sondow.
The ACM is rather bigger than any of the 30 organizations gathered for the
plucking by ISOC's Heath and Vint Cerf. Buty it is hard for ISOC to ignore
that someone has a voice that could be more authoritative than its own.
They claim that Meuller has sullied the name of the ACM by sitting down
with sondow and are turning their propaganda guns against the ACM's Barbara
Simons hoping to get her to repudiate Meullers action. They claim that
even Vint Cerf has been drafted into the fray and has sent Simmons
complaining email. How quickly they forget Mueller's speech to their geneva
meeting last june.
Possibly Cerf, Mike Roberts and Heath are growing increasingly upset that
their well orchestrated campaign to install the internets first global
regulatory authority (ICANN) is coming under fire. First from David
Johnson who said NSI would refuse to abrogate the rights of its 4 million
registrees by signing them away to ICANN and by impplication that NSI would
not collect the dollar per name tax on which ICANN depends for its budget
beginning July 1. George Conrades, IBM's surrogate board member shot back
to johnson the absurd remark: welll you won't be a registrar. Such action
by ICANN would ensure a split root because there is no way that NSI could
or should allow IBM's interests to put it out of business.
But worse for ICANN are the signs that Dave Farber may be having serious
doubts: on saturday may 29 he published the following note to his IP list:
From: Dave Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IP: " icann is not doing right"
Mime-Version: 1.0
Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Precedence: list
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>I received this note from an old friend who is a early internet commercial
>player and very established in the industry (and senior). I am circulating
>it anonymously but can assure people the person is real and sane as
>anyone is.
Dave
>Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 11:02:55 -0400
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>From:
>
>David,
>A warning for you. ICANN is violating the trust we gave it. We will begin
>to withdraw our support soon and begin to support the opposition. I so
>hate to do this, but there is no choice. Damn them all for their stupidity
>in dealing with the community this way.
Cook: Thus Cerf and Heaths carefully laid plains are unraveling and in
apparent desparation, they move to intimidate the ACM's Barbara Simmons. I
hope and believe that Barbara and the ACM will display substantial
neccesssary to resist them.
I call on Vint and Don heath to bring their smear campaign into the open
and let the rest of us see the holly wrath of ISOC.
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