[ifwp] Re: [Membership] Membership Models

1999-01-23 Thread jeff Williams
Jim and all, Jim Dixon wrote: On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Darrell Greenwood wrote: [Dixon, writing about a larger vs smaller ICANN membership:] > >I don't know if ICANN would be wiser.  It would certainly have more > >credibility.  But the problem of verifying the identity of members > >becomes more com

[ifwp] Re: [Membership] Membership Models

1999-01-23 Thread Jim Dixon
On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Darrell Greenwood wrote: [Dixon, writing about a larger vs smaller ICANN membership:] > >I don't know if ICANN would be wiser. It would certainly have more > >credibility. But the problem of verifying the identity of members > >becomes more complex with increasing membershi

[ifwp] Re: [Membership] Membership Models

1999-01-23 Thread Jim Dixon
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Darrell Greenwood wrote: > At 1:13 AM -0800 1/22/99, Jim Dixon wrote: > > >Many things are simple. Failure is one of them. > > But it does not follow that keeping things simple will cause failure. No. But if you leave off the wheels in order to simplify a car, it won't g

[ifwp] Re: [Membership] Membership Models

1999-01-22 Thread jeff Williams
William and all, William X. Walsh wrote: > Jeffrey is upset that he can't email me directly anymore with his little > flames and false accusations :) > > Notice he can't just seem to get a clue about this issue, and has to bring it > up everytime I point out the facts. > > So Jeff, since you o

[ifwp] Re: [Membership] Membership Models

1999-01-22 Thread William X. Walsh
Jeffrey is upset that he can't email me directly anymore with his little flames and false accusations :) Notice he can't just seem to get a clue about this issue, and has to bring it up everytime I point out the facts. So Jeff, since you only answer my questions with comments about myself, l

[ifwp] Re: [Membership] Membership Models

1999-01-22 Thread jeff Williams
William and all,   Well william for one who is implicated by your EX-EMPLOYER of financial fraud, I think your opinion is dubious at best.  Or do we need yet another round of posted documentation regarding this incident this week?  Hu?  Oh, an by the way what ever happened to that IANA update

[ifwp] Re: [Membership] Membership Models

1999-01-22 Thread William X. Walsh
On 22-Jan-99 jeff Williams wrote: > Estimating the total number of an potential ICANN membership at this > juncture is surely premature in the extreme. It is interesting to see > posters such as Jim Dixon make such invalid predictions however. > I often see Jim Dixon making such predictions on

[ifwp] Re: [Membership] Membership Models

1999-01-22 Thread Bill Lovell
At 09:59 AM 1/22/99 +, you wrote: >On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Bill Lovell wrote: >> >> Uh, NSI, IP, IANA , and (with the above explanation) RIR I can handle. Since >> I don't live in that domain (pun intended), what on earth "RFC editing has >> been moved away from IANA. The IETF isn't terribly k

[ifwp] Re: [Membership] Membership Models

1999-01-22 Thread Bill Lovell
At 08:59 AM 1/22/99 -0500, you wrote: >At 01:36 AM 1/22/99 -0800, you wrote: >>At 09:13 AM 1/22/99 +, you wrote: >> >>>A small amount of thought might persuade you that this process is already >>>well under way. The root servers remain with NSI. The root zone is >>>frozen. The RIRs, the re

[ifwp] Re: [Membership] Membership Models

1999-01-22 Thread jeff Williams
Jim and all, Jim Dixon wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Darrell Greenwood wrote: > > > At 1:39 PM -0800 1/21/99, Jim Dixon wrote: > > > > >In the more real world, the DNS is (a) of transient significance > > >(it's going to be replaced by directory search systems) and (b) of > > >marginal financial

[ifwp] Re: [Membership] Membership Models

1999-01-22 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 01:36 AM 1/22/99 -0800, you wrote: >At 09:13 AM 1/22/99 +, you wrote: > >>A small amount of thought might persuade you that this process is already >>well under way. The root servers remain with NSI. The root zone is >>frozen. The RIRs, the regional IP address space registries, are thin

[ifwp] Re: [Membership] Membership Models

1999-01-22 Thread Jim Dixon
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Bill Lovell wrote: > >A small amount of thought might persuade you that this process is already ['this process' = moving Internet core resources away from ICANN] > >well under way. The root servers remain with NSI. The root zone is > >frozen. The RIRs, the regional IP a

[ifwp] Re: [Membership] Membership Models

1999-01-22 Thread Bill Lovell
At 09:13 AM 1/22/99 +, you wrote: >A small amount of thought might persuade you that this process is already >well under way. The root servers remain with NSI. The root zone is >frozen. The RIRs, the regional IP address space registries, are thinking >things over. RFC editing has been m

[ifwp] Re: [Membership] Membership Models

1999-01-22 Thread Jim Dixon
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Darrell Greenwood wrote: > At 1:39 PM -0800 1/21/99, Jim Dixon wrote: > > >In the more real world, the DNS is (a) of transient significance > >(it's going to be replaced by directory search systems) and (b) of > >marginal financial importance. Things are further confused by