i am proposing gordon here for membership in the "fiction writer's guild" what a fertile imagination ....... ----- Original Message ----- From: Gordon Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 1999 9:09 PM Subject: [IFWP] Let multiple roots bloom: Will Becky Burr Grab the A root server for ICANN in the morning? >As I recall, the Cooperative Research And Development Arrangement/Agreement >is primarily used by the department of energy when giving private >contractors access to DOE laboratories for unique kinds of projects and the >gov't has a "co-ownership" of intellectual property resulting from the >projects. Asking why ICANN would receive a CRADA gives rise to some >interesting speculations: > >Because CRADAs seem to involve giving a non governmental entity access to a >government facility, one might inquire "what facility for what R & D or >other purpose"? Oh, yeah, and "where did NIST come from?" > >Assuming that the facility involved is NIST, the CRADA might allow the >ICANNITEs to place their "a" root server kept under lock and key on NIST >premises. And since the gov't was "running" the "a' server, it could not >be sued and ICANN would have "cover" when the ICANN committee on the root >sever announces the heist.(A well founded rumor of some months ago had some >gov't discussion underway in 1997 that centered on NIST taking on the >operation of the a root under the pretence of creating a "standard" and >kept at NIST.) > >So tomorrow Becky asks Jim Rutt why haven't you signed the registrar criteria. > Rutt says because I am not going to let you put us out of business. And >by the > way my attornies advise me that, given your hostility to my company, I have no > choice but to terminate our participation in the cooperative agreement >effective today. > >Becky says OK effective immediately we begin to operate the "A' root from our >facilities at NIST. Vixie points F to the NIST a server, so does jun murai >and >the european servers and ones directly under US gov't control. > >But not all are under government control. NSI will continue to run its >machines >and its "a" server. one or more of the 13 servers will stay loyal to the >NSI server. >In fact the large commercial ISPs will find out that to keep the net from >fracturing >they will need to point at both the NIST A root and the NSI A root. > >NSI will continue to register .com as will NIST. Becky no doubt has a >policy worked > out to handle conflicts. NSI, in order to increase the popularity of it's >root, will >admit new TLDs into its root quite quickly. > >Hopefully we will have action in court and congress quickly that will seek >answers >to the sell out by NTIA of american internet interests that likely dates >back to at >least the beginning of the summer of 1997 when ATT, IBM and Oracle first >proposed to Magaziner and Becky how they would answer a US government >RFC to build a new dot com registration service and put NSI out of business. > discussionms that opened up to embrace CORE by the end of the summer of 1997. > >One possible reason for magaziner and Burrs willingness to accomdate >the E C point of view was the liklihood of a quid proquo from the EC on >the privacy commission statutes deadline that loomed on Oct 25 1998 > and has now passed quite without consequence. >**************************************************************** >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 >**************************************************************** >
