Dear Karl, tks again for the explanation,
I am forwarding this to the local (indonesia) domain discussion list so that they will also understand a bit more about the internet governance. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karl Auerbach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Irwan Effendi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 2:08 PM Subject: Re: [isoc-members-discuss] China To Launch Alternate Country Code Domains > > On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Irwan Effendi wrote: > > > Thank you for the explanation. Previously, I thought the .Biz thing was > > resolved with the operator handing it over to ICANN, never knew that two > > server was running at the same time. > > It wasn't a friendly thing. The operator of the original .biz simply > didn't have the resources to engage in a legal fight. (They probably > would have won on trademark grounds, but that takes a lot of time and > money, particularly given the kind of misleading material ICANN is capable > of waving in front of a judge - I know that from multiple first hand > observations, particularly from my lawsuit against ICANN when they refused > a Director (me) the ability to inspect the financials despite an clear and > explicit right to do so under the law.) > > There was no carry-over of contents; the people who had names in the > original .biz simply lost them. > > What is most interesting about the China thing is that it isn't new; it's > been going on for several years. Those who are saying that disaster will > result from China's acts are contradicted by the fact that it's already > been in effect for several years and very few people noticed the > difference. Taiwan was also doing its own root for a few years - again > very few people noticed - but they discontinued it after I brought it to > the attention of the ICANN board. > > As an experiment I spent several years trying to shoot myself in the foot > by running my own root and by running with the competing roots. The only > problem I encountered, apart from the fact that when I uttered one of the > extra TLD names people on the legacy root couldn't resolve the names, was > that a couple of the competitive root operators were kind of wacky and > thought they new more about DNS than the RFCs and did things wrong. > > We do have to hand it to the legacy root operators - they do a first class > job. > > --karl-- > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Untuk unsubscribe: kirim e-mail ke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dengan Subject: unsubscribe ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
