I don't know Gordon, I've seen so many of these types of prediction reports from "rumors" from you by now that never end up happening, I can't help but wonder if you are making them up or not. Your credibility is almost nil on stuff like this. I guess what I'm saying is provide some evidence to back it up. If you can't/won't...........well you know the drill. On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 20:21:13 -0400, Gordon Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I have heard *a LOT* rumors which may or may not be credible. Perhaps some >of the parties involved would be willing to confirm or deny them> > >The general situation is that in addition to selling the internet out to >IBM and the GIP, Bill Clinton and al gore have sold it out to the European >commission. > >The ICANN policies that we have seen over the past 6 months, according to >knowledgable insiders, are a result of Clinton/Gore/Magaziner promises to >the Europeans that: > >1. what happens to dot com will not be an American decision > >2. that dot com net and org would be opened to registrar "competition" ASAP > >3. that for-profit, proprietary registries would not be allowed in order to >keep the europeans happy; > >4. that new TLDs were also out of the question; > >5. new TLDs could only be authorized as part of an international process >with the GAC in control > >6.. that WIPO had to be enshrined as the sole means of dns trademark >dispute resolution, > >7. and that there could be no competition among domain name dispute >resolution policies as the Green Paper contemplated. > >This sellout of american interests by clinton, gore, magaziner and beckwith >burr is very likely to be accompanied by an insistence by NTIA this week >that NSI sign the ICANN registrar requirements. unfortunately it doesn't >appear to have dawned on Beckwith that were NSI officers to sign such a >document, they would become subject to lawsuits by NSI share holders. > >that faced with the hostility on the part of esther dyson and ICANNN, that >NSI's only reasonable response will be to withdraw from the cooperative >agreement. > >that the ICANN root server committee just happens to have a meeting >scheduled for san jose california at Vint Cerf's ISOC fest this coming >weekend. > >that if NSI doesn't agree to be put out of business at the behest of the >clinton administration socialists, it will be put out of business at the >demand of the european socialists by an order from Beckwith to paul vixie >to make the f root server at the palo alto exchange the "a" server on an >interim basis > >while IBM and NTIA put the finishing touches on an replacement site for an >ICANN -run non profit dot com, org, and net registry with equipment >telephones and leased lines already installed and ready to start taking new >dot com registrations. (Last fall becky ordered NSI to provide her with a >manual on how to run the "a" server.) > >what is not clear is how the commerce department will close down NSI's >current operation (which they must do in order to satify the europeans). >Remember these people are not supposed to destabilize the Internet. But if >they don't close NSI down by the time Becky executes her saturday night >massacre, we may see $500 billion taken off the value of internet stocks. > >that NSI, under such circumstances, would find itself forced to operate its >A root as an alternative to the ICANN A root. > >that NSI, under such circumstances, would invite .web .per and other new >tlds into its root > >that NSI's alternative root might gain some very significant support by >other commercial internet service providers > >that we'd soon see the internmet could run just fine with multiple roots >and that hopefully the NSI root would quickly begin to garner support over >the ICANN/IBM?/NTIA/US gov't pirated root > >that hopefully by this weekend bliley and mcCain will have realized the >gravity of the situation and sent out subpeonas for testimony by the people >involved. > > >**************************************************************** >The COOK Report on Internet Index to seven years of the COOK Report >431 Greenway Ave, Ewing, NJ 08618 USA Exec summaries, glossary etc >(609) 882-2572 (phone & fax) http://cookreport.com >[EMAIL PROTECTED] What's Behind Ican and How it Will >Impact the Future of the Internet http://cookreport.com/icannregulate.shtml >**************************************************************** -- William X. Walsh General Manager, DSo Internet Services Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax:(209) 671-7934 The Law is not your mommy or daddy to go crying to every time you have something to whimper about.
