I didn't know about that. Thank you Judith - i'll forward on the
suggestion. Maybe they can include both.
Regards
Joe Baptista
On Mon, 15 May 2000, Judith Oppenheimer wrote:
> Joe,
>
> Can you do .g-d for those of us who might care to use it?
>
> (Couldn't say for sure, but Jewish people I know - myself included - write
> G-d, sort of a "don't say the name in vain" thing ...)
>
> ??
>
> Judith
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>
> Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 13:14:34 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Greg Skinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [IFWP] Re: [domain-policy] charter vs. generic
>
> Richard Sexton wrote:
>
> >I'm not sure it's possible to enfore a charter based on semantics; the
> >ony chartered TLDs that have been even moderately successful are those
> >which limit the charter to a specifit (or specific type) or organization.
>
> >Do we care? Say .per and .nom were for personal names and sombody
> regosetrers
> >their name and decide they want to run a porn site as well as use the name
> >for personal email. Who are we to say you can't do this.
>
> While I personally have no objections, I imagine there could be some
> raised eyebrows if (hypothetically) Peter Playboy decides to start up
> a porn magazine at playboy.nom.
>
> - --gregbo
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 20:55:45 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "!Dr. Joe Baptista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [IFWP] Re: Sunset for sunrise
>
> On Mon, 15 May 2000, Patrick Corliss wrote:
>
> > NOW can you see what sends Dr Joe Baptista into a rage? The lawyer
> >side has
>
> I'm sorry I gave you that impression. I guess it's my naturally abrassive
> personality which may have caused that impression. In fact I find this
> whole sunshine crap somewhat useful in promoting anti ICANN activities.
>
> My main concern is that were wasting too much time discussing it. We've
> all put forth our views and from what I can see we all agree the stupid
> lawyer tricks amount to nothing more then garbage.
>
> I'm also concerned that this is nothing more nor less then pro ICANN
> lawyers and pro ICANNER's like the crispy twins attempting to generate
> consensus so ICANN can later tell the world there was a great deal of
> discussion when in fact this issue was dumped like the plague some time
> ago.
>
> Michael (whatshisname) the lawyer rarely enters this discussion forum, and
> the crispy twins are the same. The only time they grace us with their
> love is when they need consensus for upcoming ICANN meetings and then they
> troll the various groups soliciting it.
>
> I've gotten three unsolicited emails this month alone asking me to
> participate in this sillyness. I tell them all I'm an original signatory
> and supporter of the Sexton - Berryhill response - which see
>
> http://sunrise.open-rsc.org/see_it/
>
> and if you want to support it too - you can visit
>
> http://sunrise.open-rsc.org/sign_it/
>
> The lack of participation in the sunsine debate is making ICANN nervous -
> especially with the GAO looking at them in the raw these days.
>
> Normally these discussions were carried on the DNSO GA list, but that
> list for all intent and purposes is dead. And I take great pleasure and
> credit for being a primary party responsible for killing it. The GA was
> always a farce - in keeping with ICANN tradition. Unfortunately - now
> that the ICANNER's have showed their hand and fell into the censorship
> trap which killed the GA - they now have to troll around gathering
> consent.
>
> Regards
> Joe Baptista
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 01:23:20 -0400
> From: Jay Fenello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [IFWP] FINANCING PLANET MANAGEMENT
>
> Here's another article that was
> sent in response to "An Internet
> Awakening."
>
> FYI:
>
> Jay.
>
>
> 1. Financing Planet Management: Sovereignty, World Order and the Earth
> Rights Imperative, Published by the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, New
> York, January 1994, 2nd edition printing, 1995.
>
> Financing Planet Management: Sovereignty, World Order and the Earth
> Rights Imperative -- By Alanna Hartzok
>
> "We have reached the deplorable circumstance where in large measure a very=
> =20
> powerful few are in possession of the earth's resources, the land and all=20
> its riches, and all the franchises and other privileges that yield a=20
> return. These monopolistic positions are kept by a handful of men who are=20
> maintained virtually without taxation . . . we are yielding up sovereignty."
>
> - Agnes de Mille (1905-1993)
>
> FINANCING PLANET MANAGEMENT
>
> "Heaven has its reasons, Earth has its resources, Man has his political=20
> order, thus forming with the first two a triad. But he would err if he=20
> failed to respect the ground rules of this triad and infringed on the other=
> =20
> two."
> - Xun Quang Xunzi, 3rd c. BC
>
> Defining the parameters of sovereignty is a key component of the world
> order dialogue as it struggles to reach consensus regarding the
> boundaries and prerogatives of power.
>
> Sovereignty is the status of a person or group of persons having supreme
> and independent political authority. In dealing with the concept of
> sovereignty, we are dealing with the reality of power. It is a power
> over territory, over land and water, oil and minerals, as well as those
> life forms which have miraculously emerged out of the mud of the earth.
>
> The kings and queens of Europe, Africa, and Asia were sovereigns. They
> reigned supreme and were thought to be divine. They descended from those
> having the strongest might and force to prevail over territory. The
> larger and richer the territory they could hold under their power and
> authority, the higher their status. They were both feared and courted by
> other humans.
>
> These were the dominators who ruled the land and made the rules. Their
> rules became law. Their territorial law was that of "dominium" -- the
> legalization of control over lands originally obtained by conquest and
> plunder. All real estate was the royal estate. Might made right, as the
> rules of power became the laws of the land.
>
> Peter Hansen, executive director of the Independet Commission on Global
> Governance, has stated that the "United Nations cannot by the nature of
> things, have the formal attributes of sovereignty, which has been
> defined around a territory, around a (specific) population, because
> centralized control of a sovereign body with a given territory and
> population, is not the same thing as a sovereign U.N. To assume that it
> would be is not a very meaningful way, in my opinion, to define the
> subject." -- World Peace News, November 1993
>
> But it seems to me that the U.N. has in fact been defined around a given
> territory, that territory being the planet as a whole, as well as a
> specific population, which is all the planet's people. The issue here is
> not that of populations and boundary lines, but of the demarcation of
> power and control over the earth that is the foremost "formal attribute
> of sovereignty" to be debated.
>
> To speak of enforceable world law is to speak of world power. A world
> legislature would have the power to make the laws of the land and to
> make the rules for the territory of the earth. And this is what concerns
> me, because we have not yet discussed the rules of territorial control
> and ownership in sufficient detail.
>
> Consider these realities:
>
> Fact: A U.N. study of 83 countries showed that less than 5% of
> rural landowners control three-quarters of the land.
>
> Fact: The most pressing cause of the abject poverty which
> millions of people in the world endure is that a mere 2.5% of landowners
> with more than 100 hectares control nearly three-quarters of all the
> land in the world, with the top 0.23% controlling over half. (Susan
> George, How the Other Half Dies, Penguin Books,1976, p.24)
>
> Fact: At best, a generous interpretation would suggest that about
> 3% of the population owns 95% of the privately held land in the U.S.
> (Peter Meyer, Land Rush-A Survey of America's Land - Who Owns It, Who
> Controls It, How Much Is Left; Harpers Magazine, Jan.l979)
>
> Fact: According to a 1985 government report, 2% of landowners
> hold 60% of the arable land in Brazil while close to 70% of rural
> households have little or none. Just 342 farm properties in Brazil cover
> 183,397 square miles--an area larger than California. (Worldwatch Oct.
> l988)
>
> Before a global authority, be it a reformed United Nations or a federal
> world government, can be trusted to wield power benignly, the problem of
> the current undemocratic control of the earth must be addressed.
> Innumerable battles and wars have been fought, and many are currently in
> progress, over territorial control. The fair and peaceful resolution of
> such conflicts requires a deep consideration of ethical principles
> regarding land tenure.
>
> Dr. I.G. Patel, Independent Commission on Global Governance member,
> governor of the Reserve Bank of India, and former director of the London
> School of Economics stated that "We cannot talk (sensibly) about what
> kind of global government we want until (1) agreement is reached on how
> to deal with the causes of international problems and (2) if we are
> going to have governance or government we will have to do something
> about poverty." --World Peace News, Nov. l993
>
> Dr. Patel is correct in his perception that the world order movement has
> not dealt sufficiently with these issues. While there is a fair amount
> of unanimity regarding the basic outline of a democratic global
> political structure, i.e., the need for a democratically elected
> legislature, a world judiciary to interpret and apply world laws, and an
> executive to administer and enforce the laws, there has not
> yet been sufficient thought applied to the consideration of root causes
> of poverty and international conflict.
>
> The problem is that democracy has not "grounded" itself. We have not yet
> extended democratic principles down to the ownership and control of the
> earth. Democratic government as presently constituted, and democratic
> world government as currently proposed, ungrounded and unembedded in
> equal rights to the earth, cannot create the world of peace and justice
> that we seek.
>
> THE CRACK IN THE LIBERTY BELL
>
> To fully grasp the nature of the severe limitations in the current
> ideology of the world government movement, it is necessary to follow
> the thread of the democratic ideal back to its fundamental tenets.
> Pondering the problem of persistent poverty within a democratic system
> of government, Richard Noyes, New Hampshire State Representative and
> editor of the book entitled, Now the Synthesis: Capitalism, Socialism,
> and the New Social Contract, identifies the current land tenure system
> as
> "the one great imperfection, the snag on which freedom catches."
>
> Noyes shows us that the "Age of Reason gave us a thesis with flaws."
> John Locke's Second Treatise on Civil Government, the political bible of
> the founding fathers, held that "The great and chief end of men's
> uniting into commonwealths, and putting themselves under government is
> the preservation of their property." The central understanding was that
> only through the guarantee of property rights, one's own body included,
> could the individual really be free.
>
> In further defining property rights, Locke stated that "every man has a
> `property' in his own =B3person"', so that anything a man has "removed
> from the common state," anything with which he has "mixed his own
> labor," is rightfully his own. The securing of this right was to be the
> main duty of a democratic government.
>
> Locke also affirmed that "God hath given the world to men in common."
> But the trouble lies with Locke's Second Proviso regarding property.
> Locke maintained that it was correct for the individual in a state of
> nature to mix his labor with land and so call it (produced wealth) his
> own "since there was still enough (land) and as good left, and more than
> the yet unprovided could use."
>
> In the Second Proviso the reasoning of the primary mentor of the
> founding fathers was faulty and limited. Locke failed to perceive the
> consequences for democracy of a time when so few humans would come to
> control so much of the earth, to the exclusion of the vast majority. Nor
> could he have known how the forces of an industrial economy could drive
> land values to such highs, to the benefit of landowners rather than wage
> earners.
>
> The property-in-land problem, insufficiently scrutinized by John Locke
> and the founding fathers, is the crack in the Liberty Bell. It is the
> root dilemma of democracy. Life and liberty without land rights breeds
> unhappiness, unemployment, and wage slavery.
>
> Adam Smith was of no more help than John Locke when it came to solving
> the land problem. Although initially he made clear distinctions among
> land, labor, and capital, he soon began using the terms capital and land
> as synonymous factors. Consequently, mainstream economists have treated
> land as essentially no more than a subset of capital in their own
> two-factor (capital and labor) macroeconomics. This is why they have
> failed to understand the grave problem of the maldistribution of wealth
> which has grown out of the fact that a minuscule percentage of the
> world's people have come to control and consume the vast majority of the
> earth's land and natural
> resources.
>
> THE COMMON HERITAGE PRINCIPLE AND PUBLIC FINANCE
>
> The resolution of the dilemma of democracy can be found in a
> three-factor (land, labor, capital) macroeconomic approach. The products
> resulting from the interaction of land and labor are rightfully held as
> individual private property, while land (which term includes all natural
> resources) is recognized as the common heritage.
>
> Once the human right to the earth is firmly established in the minds and
> policies of a democratic majority, land will no longer be taken by the
> few from the many either by the force of military might or by the
> mechanisms of the market. The market's ability to place value, combined
> with the efficiency of money as an exchange medium, results in a range
> of prices for land sites and natural resources. Those who simply "own"
> earth resources, contribute nothing as such to the productive process.
> Yet under the current private property ethic, they are in an
> advantageous position of power and can extract the ransom of what
> economists call "ground rent" from both labor and productive capital.
>
> But if we now apply the common heritage principle to land, then it
> follows that ground rent, which is a measure of natural resource value,
> must be treated as "common property." The next step which three-factor
> economists take is to link this insight with the public finance system.
> Voila! The policy imperative becomes clear. A way to affirm the equal
> right of all to the common heritage is to collect the ground rent for
> the benefit of the community as a whole, a policy frequently referred to
> as "land value taxation."
>
> Confiscatory taxes on labor and productive capital should gradually be
> removed, as the value of earth resources becomes the proper source of
> funding for the community as a whole. The "common wealth" finances the
> commonwealth.
>
> Three-factor economists thus advocate a practical policy that will solve
> the problem of Locke's Second Proviso, which falsely assumed no
> limitation to natural resources. Democracy can now be established on the
> firm foundation of equal rights to the earth, our common heritage.
>
> While this perspective is newly emerging, it is not new. No less a
> figure than Tom Paine stated that "Men did not make the earth. . . It is
> the value of the improvement only, and not the earth itself, that is
> individual property. . . . Every proprietor owes to the community a
> ground rent for the land which he holds." Where does that leave us in
> our consideration of the world order movement, the concept of
> "sovereignty," and the need for financing the activities of the U.N. or
> any other global body?
>
> THE NEW DEMOCRATIC COVENANT
>
> Clearly, the mandate of a benevolent yet powerful sovereign global
> governmental body must be to protect the property rights of the bodies
> of individuals as well as the products of their labor (private
> property), as well as to protect and to fairly share our common body
> Mother Earth.
>
> This is the new territorial imperative, the new democratic covenant, the
> higher synthesis resolving what has been the difficult and
> too-often-destructive dialectic of left versus right.
>
> A properly constituted global authority will seek to further these
> principles both within and among the current nations. Once the
> importance of the new territorial imperative of equal rights to earth is
> grasped by the world order movement, then it follows that ground rent
> (land value) should be advocated as the appropriate source of public
> finance from local to global levels.
>
> EXAMPLES OF GROUND RENT POLICIES
>
> This taxation approach is not merely theoretical but is being
> implemented, at least in part, in a number of places. In the United
> States, enabling legislation in Pennsylvania gives cities the option of
> shifting their property taxes off of buildings (productive capital) and
> onto land values only (common heritage). The fifteen cities taxing land
> values at the higher rate have been experiencing statistically
> significant economic benefits.
>
> Alaska retained its oil lands as public land, subject to fair leasehold
> arrangements for use plus a tax on each barrel pumped for market. Assets
> in the Alaska Permanent Fund are about $13 billion. 'There are no state
> income or sales taxes, and every citizen of Alaska receives an annual
> dividend of about $1000 each with an additional $250 per month to every
> citizen 65 years or older.
>
> Movements in this direction are underway through- out the world. In the
> spring of 1993, representatives of eighty Russian cities signed a
> resolution to reform their public revenue system in this manner.
>
> On the global level, the Law of the Seas, the Moon Treaty, and the
> treaty now governing Antarctica are all based on the common heritage
> principle, a principle that now must be extended worldwide to include
> surface lands, as well as oil and mineral resources.
>
> HATCHING MANY BIRDS OUT OF ONE EGG
>
> As the taxation of land values, essentially a "user fee" system, becomes
> an integral component of the agenda of planet management, several birds
> will begin to hatch out of one egg.
>
> Simultaneously,
> (1) land tenure will be based on fairness, not force, thus ameliorating
> territorial conflict, a root
> cause of war;
> (2) land resources can be equitably allocated;
> (3) the economic playing field is leveled;
> (4) a genuinely free market is encouraged;
> (5) the gap between the rich and poor narrows; and
> (6) the necessary collective activities of humanity are properly funded,
> which include peacekeeping and the restoration and protection of the
> environment.
>
> COMMON HERITAGE FUNDING: LOCAL TO GLOBAL
>
> It has been suggested that such a system of finance would be based on
> principles of subsidiarity in terms of implementation. The ground rent
> of certain specific types of land re- sources can be collected by
> clearly delineated governing bodies from the local to the global level.
>
> Thus, cities and counties would draw their funding from the ground rent
> of surface lands; regional authorities would collect the ground rent of
> oil and minerals, and global governing agencies would be funded by a
> percentage from these two levels as well as that of deep sea resources,
> the electromagnetic spectrum, satellite orbital zones, and other
> transnational resources.
>
> Democratic rights to the planet can be vested in the people as a whole
> in a way that can be understood easily and administered practically. The
> advent of the information revolution combined with the personal computer
> enables such a system to be monitored by the masses. Who owns what,
> where, and how much ground rent they pay into the common fund could
> become the most enlightening computer game on earth.
>
> A WARNING AND AN APPEAL
>
> If we fail to tax land values for the common fund, the concentrated
> control of earth in the hands of the few will continue unmitigated, thus
> advancing the conditions of social turmoil which too often burst into
> flames of hatred, murder, and war.
>
> Marx is in the morgue, and in the West there is a dawning realization
> that the huge bureaucracies of the welfare state, which confiscate the
> wages of the middle classes through the income tax in the attempt to
> provide a safety net (rather than a safe nest!) for the poor, are not
> only unwieldy but unworkable as well.
>
> I am appealing to my brothers and sisters in the world order/planetary
> peace and justice movements to deeply consider the fundamental
> assumptions of the planet/people relationship as it concerns the entire
> question of land tenure. I trust that this consideration will discard
> both the power politics of "dominion," as well as the market construct
> of buying and selling our Mother Earth for private profit.
>
> Currently, certain monetary and debt repayment policies and practices of
> the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund are strangling the
> economies and harming the people of many developing nations. This
> reality relates to the theme of this exposition in a major way.
>
> A significant proportion of the "profit" that has poured into the global
> banking system in the past several decades was not a product of honest
> labor, but was in fact a pool of funds generated from the ground rent of
> oil resources. These funds were loaned to numerous developing countries
> where they were frequently of benefit to the ruling elite rather than
> the people as a whole. However, the debt repayments have now fallen upon
> the middle class and poor citizens who neither voted for nor gained from
> the borrowed money.
>
> Morally and ethically, a vast amount of the funds of the International
> Monetary Fund and the World Bank represent a theft from the global
> commons. Under the common heritage principle, these funds would have
> been used to benefit the people of the world either by direct dividends
> or as interest free loans through a revolving loan fund type of system.
>
> These "oil theft loans" made by the world financial institutions should
> therefore be declared illegal and invalid. In the future, any other
> money loaned to governments by global financial institutions should be
> repaid from the ground rent of the indebted nations. Such repayments
> would therefore fall primarily upon those who are unjustly reaping the
> benefits of valuable land holdings rather than further burdening the
> struggling wage earners, small business owners, and the oppressed poor.
>
> Unless a reformed or empowered United Nations or other world government
> is built firmly upon the principle of equal rights for all to our
> planet, then both the government and the planet will be controlled by a
> handful of vested interests. It is up to the intellectual leadership of
> the world order movement to grapple with this issue NOW - to stop
> hedging and waiting for the messiah of world government to descend.
>
> Before we purport to know the global governmental recipe for success,
> let us consider how to make one city succeed. What would it take for the
> wealth gap between rich and poor to begin to narrow each year instead of
> widening, for the murder rate to plummet rather than skyrocket, for the
> schools to become safer rather than scarier?
>
> If the present political structure of democracy were sufficient for the
> task, then Washington, D.C. would be the New Jerusalem, Philadelphia
> would truly be a city of brotherly love, and every slice of the Big
> Apple would taste sweet.
>
> To have peace on earth, we must work to create the conditions for peace
> in our own towns and cities. If we would revitalize our urban habitats
> by improving schools and libraries, creating livelihoods and affordable
> housing, and maintaining safe and beautiful parks and playgrounds, then
> we must urge our city council members to collect the ground rent of land
> to finance public services and greatly reduce or eliminate most other
> forms of taxation.
>
> If the politics of the planet are to be based on fairness rather than on
> force, then equal rights to earth must become the guiding principle, the
> sovereign, supreme rule. The fundamental human right which now needs to
> be affirmed is this -- THE EARTH IS THE BIRTHRIGHT OF ALL PEOPLE.
>
>
> Alanna Hartzok co-chaired the Alternative Economic Commission at the
> recent Conference on Global Governance sponsored by the Association of
> World Citizens and the Campaign for A More Democratic United Nations
> (CAMDUN). She is the United Nations Non-Governmental Organization
> Representative for the International Union for Land Value Taxation and
> Free Trade
> and Executive Director of Earth Rights Institute.
>
>
> COMMENTS
>
> "World citizens must be concerned with the growing gap between rich and=20
> poor in the world and within democracies. Conventional economics has failed=
> =20
> miserably. Alanna Hartzok's application of the common heritage principle to=
> =20
> land and 'land value taxation' offers a refreshing new approach."
>
> Ross Smyth, President World Government Organization Coalition
>
> "Alanna Hartzok has recognized that the earth is the birthright of all=20
> peoples and that prevailing notions of state sovereignty must yield to the=
> =20
> new thinking that the only real sovereigns are the people If we are all to=
> =20
> live together in peace and dignity, it must become a reality that the land,=
> =20
> the sea, and the air we breathe are a common heritage to serve the basic=20
> rights of human kind."
>
> Dr. Benjamin B. Ferencz Prosecutor, Nuremburg War Crimes Trial Adjunct=20
> Professor of International Law Pace University
>
> "Alanna Hartzok has given us a fascinating account of the economic=20
> necessity of building democracy in human terms from the ground upwards.=20
> World governmentalists should start their re-think from here."
>
> Dr. Jeffrey J. Segal, Co-Founder Campaign for a More Democratic United=
> Nations
>
> "I enjoyed reading Financing Planet Management and found it to be a=20
> valuable contribution to the quest for world government on a democratic=20
> basis. We do need to have a politics based on fairness and with the earth=20
> as our birthright."
>
> Leland P. Stewart, Founder Unity-In-Diversity Council
>
> "I'm very much in favor of the ideas proposed in your paper. I agree very=20
> much with you that world federalists and world governmentalists need to=20
> think through the fundamentals of economic justice"
>
> Jack Yost, United Nations NGO Representative World Federalist Movement
>
> "Your paper is a cogent and convincing reply to the appeal for an economic=
> =20
> engine to propel the 'democratic world order', 'global peace and justice',=
> =20
> and 'environmentally sustainable development' movements. It is an evocative=
> =20
> introduction to a crucial worldwide discussion by citizens locally and=20
> opinion-makers internationally and confirms your qualifications to serve as=
> =20
> a coordinator for the Campaign for a More Democratic United Nations=
> (CAMDUN)."
>
> Dr. Harry H. Lerner, Co-Founder CAMDUN
>
> "One thing that has troubled me about the world government concept is the=20
> fact that our continuing failure to be able to use power wisely at any=20
> local level, with which I am familiar, casts doubt on the possibility that=
> =20
> we homosapiens would be able to do any better at the highest level. Your=20
> essay correctly isolates land title as the modern day weapon-- the one=20
> which has so recently replaced the Auchelian 'almond-shaped hand axes'=20
> Louis S. B. Leakey found at Olduvia, and the even earlier thigh bones which=
> =20
> seem to have bashed in so many skulls. Your essay is calculated to focus=20
> the attention of the world peace movement at a critical place."
>
> Representative Richard Noyes New Hampshire State House of Representatives
>
> "Many organizations that advocate peace, human rights, or alleviation of=20
> poverty suggest temporary charitable measures or a future ideal solution to=
> =20
> world problems, at once inadequate on one hand and frustrating on the=20
> other. Alanna Hartzok in Financing Planet Management makes a vital=20
> connection for creating world peace and order. In this concise but=20
> insightful narrative, the author has us realize the importance of providing=
> =20
> a sound base from which democracy, justice, and equitable opportunity can=20
> proceed."
>
> Hal Sager, Media Producer Trustee, Common Ground-USA
>
> "We are fond of citing history yet refuse to act in accordance with the=20
> lessons that are apparent. Past civilizations have collapsed and perished=20
> by their own making and by stubborn adherence to their profit and power=20
> paradigms. The unchecked depletion and destruction of natural resources and=
> =20
> eco-systems, is an old story repeating again and again. In every case where=
> =20
> there was the holding of land by the few out of the hands of most, the=20
> result was the horror of war or economic collapse. The nation-state=20
> country-clubs have not been able to rise from the muck of myopic views and=
> =20
> economic illusions. Hartzok drops the veils through which we see economics=
> =20
> and profits courageously calls for a gentle revolution in our relationship=
> =20
> to the planet-one that is not only necessary, but vital to our very=
> survival."
>
> Mary Rose Kaczorowski Action Coalition For Global Change Ten Mile River=20
> Watershed Association
>
> "Ms. Hartzok has a firm, intuitive grasp of basic economic and political=20
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> Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 02:51:44 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "!Dr. Joe Baptista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [IFWP] Re: (OT) Re: Sunset for sunrise
>
> On Sun, 14 May 2000, Repoman wrote:
>
> > ( Answer to !Dr Joe: Yes I'm new here and grateful to be able to share my
> simple
> > views on topics utilizeing my simple instincts honed by 'hands on brick
> and
> > mortar' as I suspect you are as well.
>
> Yup
>
> > Btw: What the hell is a 'Fud'?My guess: F....unfounded drivel"?)
>
> FUD = Fear - Uncertainty - and Doubt. A process employed by the Crispy
> twins whenever they run out of answers - which is often. Also ICANN's
> main strategy when it's claim to the domain space is challenged.
>
> Here's an example of FUD. Any time people talk about running their own
> root servers, ICANNer's start spreading the FUD. Saying all sort of
> problem will result from that. However the FACTS dictate that sooner or
> later we will all be running our own root servers.
>
> But FUD will always remain FUD. Simply put the internet serves humans and
> if it crashes it will be humans who will find a solution - not
> ICANN. People are by nature self organizing, and should the existing
> domain infrastructure crash - which is very possible - people will simply
> start up their own root servers and route around the problem.
>
> WHY - you may ask? HOW - will this come about?
>
> Well - simply put ICANN runs 13 root servers. All of those root servers
> are very vulnerable to attack. DNS is by default a very insecure
> protocol, easily hacked. Also, there has never been a DDOS against the 13
> roots. If a DDOS is ever launched against the ICANN roots then I gurantee
> you that alot of people will not be surfing for a few days.
>
> But the day that happens will be the day we all end up running our own
> roots. I already run my own by the way.
>
> Regards
> Joe Baptista
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 04:42:42 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "!Dr. Joe Baptista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [IFWP] dot.god is property.
>
> Hello:
>
> Today I have begun moving the dot.god registry to a new box. We will be
> running a one year test of the dot.god top level domain, formerly a
> private tld employed and operated by the Church of the Universe in various
> internal networks. The naming practice for tld.god began when it was
> decided to provide internal resources to the brothers and all systems on
> the private network were named something.god. later the brother
> introduced the dot.satan tld for naming buggy computers on the internal
> network. Alot of NT ended up in the dot.satan tld.
>
> At this time we are drafting a charter for dot.god. The gist of it will
> define that all dot.god second level domains are property. There will be
> a one time fee to setup the domain space, and then a yearly fee for
> maintanence. The yearly maintenance fee (our idea of property tax) will
> be between $3.00 to $5.00 per year.
>
> An administrative contract will provide management services for the tld
> until such time as a community of owners is established at which time such
> domain owners will be given control of the dot.god zone. We've been
> debating defining a community as anything from 5,000 domain owners to
> 1 million.
>
> I would welcome any suggestions concerning the above statement so I can
> present it to the brothers and sisters for consideration.
>
> I expect the tld will be tested for one year and we'll also be looking for
> people willing to test. You will get a free dot.god tld for your effort
> in helping us test. I'll be posting further details and applications
> regarding this to the following lists:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> NCDNHC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> dot.god allows for anonymous registrations and all applications will be
> allowed a privacy flag. This means you can restrict people from accessing
> your email address using our whois server.
>
> Here's an example of a public whois output:
>
> $ whois -h whois.pccf.net god.god
> Welcome to .whois server
>
> Database updated on: Wed Jan 12 04:04:16 EST 2000
>
> Domain: god.god
> Handle: 554909989110
> Created: December 14, 1999
> Updated: December 14, 1999
> Status: Active
>
> Description: The Gates of St. Peter start here!
> Email: god@god
> Organization: GOD Inc.
>
> Virtual Map: PARKED AT NIC
>
> and this is an example of a private whois output:
>
> bash-2.03$ whois -h whois.pccf.net my.god
> Welcome to .whois server
>
> Database updated on: Wed Jan 12 04:04:16 EST 2000
>
> Domain: my.god
> Handle: 76889-21445
> Created: January 12, 2000
> Updated: January 12, 2000
> Status: Active
>
> PRIVATE DOMAIN: email domain contact via the following URL
>
> http://god.pccf.net/cgi-bin/emailadmin?my.god=76889-21445
>
> The whois URL's by the way won't work at this time.
>
> Feel free to ask questions and more importantly your suggestions would be
> welcomed.
>
> Regards
> Joe Baptista
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 07:49:04 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "!Dr. Joe Baptista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [IFWP] I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-idn-requirements-02.txt (fwd)
>
> Well at least were moving closer to internationalized domain names, at
> least one guide closer.
>
> - ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 06:51:07 -0400
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: IETF-Announce: ;
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-idn-requirements-02.txt
>
> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
> directories.
> This draft is a work item of the Internationalized Domain Name Working Group
> of the IETF.
>
> Title : Requirements of Internationalized Domain Names
> Author(s) : Z. Wenzel, J. Seng
> Filename : draft-ietf-idn-requirements-02.txt
> Pages : 8
> Date : 12-May-00
>
> This document describes the requirement for encoding international
> characters into DNS names and records. This document is guidance for
> developing protocols for internationalized domain names.
>
> A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-idn-requirements-02.txt
>
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>
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> Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 08:22:23 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "Richard J. Sexton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [IFWP] Re: (OT) Re: Sunset for sunrise
>
> At 02:51 AM 5/15/00 -0400, !Dr. Joe Baptista wrote:
> >> Btw: What the hell is a 'Fud'?My guess: F....unfounded drivel"?)
> >
> >FUD = Fear - Uncertainty - and Doubt.
>
> Hey, could we change it to "fucking unfounded drivel"? That's good.
>
> - --
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> It's about travel on expense accounts to places with good beer. - BKR
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 10:41:39 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "Richard J. Sexton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [IFWP] Your names council at work
>
> >Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> >To: "Richard J. Sexton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> >Subject: Re: Re: [IFWP] Re: (OT) Re: Sunset for sunrise
> >Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 08:33:46 -0400
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> >glad to hear your up & awake !!!
> >
> >
>
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> i always appreciate those "special words of guidance" from you richard.
>
> stay healthy and make sure baptista keeps taking his meds regularly
>
> best wishes
>
> ken
>
>
>
>
> To: "Richard J. Sexton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 13:27:51 -0400
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>
> and dont forget to brush your teeth after each meal !!
>
>
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>
> thanks richard !!!
> my best wishes to you as well !
> keep bathing regularly !!
> - --
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ph-1.613.473.1719
> It's about travel on expense accounts to places with good beer. - BKR
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