Gordon and all, Very interesting information, and confirms some of the information that we [INEGroup] also have on hand as well. Thank you! >;) It appears sufficiently that ICANN along with it's CORE compatriots and IBM through the GIP http://www.gip.org have indeed imposed a virtual takeover of the existing DNS ROOT structure from a policy standpoint, leaving those in the majority, small business, in the lurch and therefore disenfranchised as they as stakeholders and in accordance with the White Paper and the MoU are effectively without a voice or a vote. Gordon Cook wrote: > With reference to the following press release some one on another > list asked what it all meant. > > HERNDON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 22, 1999--Michael A. Daniels, Chairman > of the Board of Network Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ:NSOL - news), the world's > leading registrar of Web addresses, today announced the resignation of > Network Solutions' Board members John E. Glancy and Donald N. Telage. > > I have a pretty clear idea of the answer. There was a war inside of > NSOL and Telage lost. > > Right up to the time of Rutt's July 22 congressional appearance, NSOL > was looking at options for going to court against ICANN and DOC. > Sources who know him well tell me that Telage was driving the no > accommodation camp. When Rutt arrived at NSOL in May it was sharply > divided between those who wanted to fight and those who wanted to > sell out. Rutt at first looked like he was ready to fight. But > between July 22 and July 30, or perhaps even earlier, he joined the > camp of the capitulationists. > > What has become more clear to me is the extent of IBM's role in > ICANN. The appearance of Chris Caine at the July 30 meeting was > highly significant. The goal was NSOL capitulation and after > tremendous effort by IBM politically in DC during the past two > years to make ICANN happen and make it happen the way IBM wanted it > to happen, Caine joined Patrick to drive IBM's ICANN DNS e-commerce > strategy across the goal line. > > **"Don Telage ** was *NOT* at the July 30th meeting. Numerous > sources have made this very clear. Yet stop and consider. If you > contemplate the "statesmanlike" words of ICANN CEO Mike Roberts and > George Conrades NSOL would either sign ICANN's accreditation > requirements or it would no longer register .com IE it would no > longer be a viable business. For the key executive (Telage) who had > guided NSOL though the past two years not to have been there boggles > the mind. Yet if Telage's authority had been effectively > overturned and Rutt and Daniels were at the meeting to hear IBM's > terms of surrender, Telage's absence then makes sense. > > For on July 30, 1999 NSOL was going to a secret meeting to hear > ICANN's (read IBM's) "terms and conditions". One would reasonably > assume that with the stakes so high NSOL OUGHT to have had Telage > at the meeting. Telage by virtue of his leadership role inside of > NSOL knew the players and the stakes FAR better that Rutt who had > been with NSOL less than 90 days. Daniels who was there to protect > SAIC interests cold not have known the issues as did Telage. The > fact that there was a meeting where neither Telage nor Phil Sbarbaro, > NSOL's bulldog lead attorney attended marked the triumph of those who > decided to make a deal with IBM/ICANN rather than fight. All that > was left to do was to wait a "seemly" amount of time before removing > Telage from all positions of power within NSI. > > Of course IBM and NSOL have their own spin on the meeting. A > friendly meeting simply designed to surface and share ideas. Indeed > now that NSOL has done IBM's bidding and has legitimatized and > empowered ICANN how could the meeting be positioned otherwise? Jim > Rutt and Mike Daniels are now the spin meisters for IBM/ICANN's new > world order. If what I have both been told and have directly > observed in at least one instance is accurate, Rutt is on Mike > Daniel's very short leash. The word from THEIR side of the fence is > that the dispute is settled, NSOL wants to look forward not back and > that NSOL's business plan is now focused on selling services besides > domain names. Understandable given what they have done, and the bed > that they have made for themselves to sleep in. > > While they may try to dismiss my take as misrepresenting the tenor of > the meeting, what they had better figure out is how a secret meeting > with only nine people in attendance could have developed the leaks > that this meeting did. They had four of the nine clearly on their > side. PATRICK, CAINE, RUTT, and DANIELS. Farber, Bradner, Reid and > Kahn as 'observers' with an unidentified representative from ICANN > seem to have heard things that didn't sit well with one or more of > them. Someone in the inner circle finally had more ICANN/GIP/GAC/IBM > arrogance than he could tolerate. The secret meeting is no longer > secret and the foundation of support for ICANN/GIP/GAC/IBM is now > flawed. > > The message of NSOL's press release is that Don Telage refused to > play in this dirty little game. For this we owe him our respect. > NSOL watchers may wish to see whether we will now see the "IBM > -ization" of NSOL's Board. Alan Baratz who joined the NSOL Board > this summer is an ex high level IBM executive who was involved at > the highest levels of IBM's promotion of NREN when I was working at > OTA between 1990 and 1992. And one might ask whether David Holtzman > who came from IBM to take charge of all NSI computer systems was the > first IBM mole inside the NSOL structure? Certainly the NSOL ICANN > IBM alliance, the shared registry and the artificially induced split > into registry versus registrar has rendered Jim Rutt's June 1999 > promise of improved customer service from NSOL laughable. > **************************************************************** > The COOK Report on Internet Index to seven years of the COOK Report > 431 Greenway Ave, Ewing, NJ 08618 USA http://cookreport.com > (609) 882-2572 (phone & fax) Is ICANN an IBM e-business ? > [EMAIL PROTECTED] See also Lessig's Code: and > Other Laws of Cyberspace http://cookreport.com/lessigbook.shtml > **************************************************************** Regards, -- Jeffrey A. Williams Spokesman INEGroup (Over 95k members strong!) CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng. Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC. E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact Number: 972-447-1894 Address: 5 East Kirkwood Blvd. Grapevine Texas 75208
