-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Greetings fellow bay area wireless types! This is a little spammy, and for that I'm sorry, but many of you run .org domains and may care.
Some of you may know that I work for the Internet Software Consortium. We're the people who write BIND 8 and BIND 9, INN, and other open source software in wide use today. We have put in a bid to run the .org TLD, and we need your show of support. We've partnered with Internet Multicasting Service (http://not.invisible.net/). I'm writing to you today because I think this is a really important test of whether or not some core Internet infrastructure will be public or private. We see .org as a public trust. That means that we'll run a fully open and transparent registry: all of our software for running the registry will be published open source and will be available for anybody else to use. We'll also publish full statistics about what we're doing and run a transparent operation. We view this as an opportunity to produce a "best current practices" reference implementation and take some of the .com MIS-style mystique out of the so-called "domain name industry." The other important thing about what we're proposing is how we'll use the funds: every cent will be plowed back into core Internet infrastructure, such as developing BIND 9 and doing things like securing the DNS. I'm writing to you because our fully open approach is a long-shot and we need public support. The other bidders for this opportunity are all combinations of a well-meaning non-profit teamed up with a commercial registry operator. We don't think .org should be run to produce shareholder profits and we don't think the funds from .org should be spent on well-meaning general good works. Your public support would really help our chances of winning this if you think we're the right people for the job. Here are 3 URL's if you want to learn more: Our detailed proposal for .org: http://trusted.resource.org/ News and announcements from places like Slashdot and the New York Times: http://not.invisible.net/signals/memes/org.shtml A page which lets people show their support: http://not.invisible.net/signals/bin/000055.shtml Thanks, - --Michael -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (NetBSD) Comment: See http://www.flame.org/~explorer/pgp for my keys iD8DBQE9NRAVl6Nz7kJWYWYRAnEaAJ4xx4llfYoPe+BdgY6rRo277Es8GQCZAVgE c+QlbVrJrvH5EIWc7X5pets= =AB7y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
