I think everyone remembers Count Richard of Harris - or is that Earl
Richard of Harris? Anyway - Count DooDoo is at it again.
regards
joe
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Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 11:25:31 -0500
From: Joe Baptista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: A Proposed Private Sector Equivalent of ICANN
Enough crap Rick. For those here who don't know Rick Harris - he's a
crazy person in the finest sense of the word. Mr. Harris is living in
some sort of dementia and is well know to the dns world as being a bull
shitter and complete waste of time.
To his credit - I'm convencied he actually believes all these
fantasies. Mr. Harris does in fact make applications to various
government agencies for various projects which amount to nothing. Last
year he was opeining up a radio station, this year it was going to be a TV
broadcast facility. To his credit he makes all these applications to
government - so he is a man in motion, but he's never gotten anywhere.
The people on opensrs call him Count Doo Doo - recently he tried to pass
himself off as an english count while trying to sell of his eTLD
concept. Incidentally there are no such creatures as english "counts",
the english have earls, and there are also no such creatures as
eTLD's. All this is a figment of the immagination which is rick harris -
another nut on the lamb.
regards
joe
On Sat, 11 Nov 2000, Rick Harris wrote:
> A Proposed Private Sector Equivalent of ICANN
>
> THIS IS A REQUEST FOR THOUGHTFUL AND CONSTRUCTUVE COMMENTS. IT IS THE FIRST
> DRAFT OF A *doable* concept that counters or mirrors (AND THUS PRIVATIZES)
> the existing ICANN governance model. This is a worklable private sector
> equivalent of ICANN. The present drafts REQUIRE AND WELCOME INPUT FROM THE
> DNS COMMUNITY.
>
> Following the results of the ICANN deliberations next week at LAX Marriott,
> Idexis Corporation will float a proposal to *all* the parties who failed
> to win ICANN approval for proposed new TLDs. The proposal is as follows:
>
> (1) Whether ICANN is or is not the legitimate governance model for
> world-wide management of the DNS - there is room for a private-sector
> initiative that would mirror ICANN for private persons.
>
> (2) The proposed private-sector governance model would be called "NICANN"
> (tm). (USPTO trademark pending)- NICANN is the acronym for "New Internet
> Company For Assigned Names and Numbers".
>
> (3) The purpoose of NICANN is to create a private-sector initiative whereby
> Alternative TLDs (eTLDs) would be created that resolve PERFECTLY inside the
> EXISTING LEGACY ROOT of the public internet. The method for introducing
> eTLDs replicates the present method used by the telcos - which is "layering"
> as in adding new area codes on top of older ones where the existing supply
> of NANPA numbers is no longer sufficient for the needs of subscribers.
>
> (4) The proposed layering method involves using aggregations of existing
> domain names,which are also master addresses,in the dot com name space, to
> create an equivalent of a TLD. Second-level domains - WHICH ARE NOT SUB
> DOMAINS - are layered on top of the existing aggregation of master addresses
> - which are then shared by registrants. Three NEW eTLDs are proposed. They
> are: (a) Dot Pod (.pod), (b) Dot PIN (.pin), and (c) Dot Kin (.kin)
> Respectivly these three TLD acronyms stand for "personal online domains"
> (POD), "personal internet numbers" (PIN) and "kinship information network"
> (KIN).
>
> (5) All the necessary second-level (.com) domain names that are required to
> launch and then layer the proposed three new ETLDs have been secured. What
> is important to understand is that EVERY .POD, .PIN and .KIN - BECAUSE IT
> resolves perfectly inside the root zone of the DNS, is completely faithful
> to the root zone singularity argument(s) set forth in RFC 2826 - and
> endorsed by ICANN.
>
> (6) NICANN "ownership" is open to anyone willing to join the initiative and
> work constructively toward building an equivalent private-sector NICANN.
> The proposed ultimate purpose of NICANN is to leverage the collective
> knowledge, wisdom and skills of various persons in the internet community
> in order to move forward the idea of global connectivity on the public
> internet - and to do so in a private and responsible manner that stays
> within the existing technical framework of the DNS.
>
> (7) Each "owner" or "shareholder" in NICANN will be asked to contribute $100
> (U.S.), which will give that person 10 Class A voting shares in the new
> corporation. The present total assets of NICANN consist of approximately
> 700 dot com SLDs that were previously purchased to form the core aggregation
> of second-level domains required to launch and sustain the three new eTLDs.
> The "tag line" for NICANN business initiatives on the public internet is
> "The Dot Stops Here" (tm) - see uspto.gov.
>
> A COMPLETE SET OF Adobe PDF MODELS THAT SHOWN HOW THE ETLDS WORK AND HOW
> THEY WILL BE SUCCESFULLY MARKETED IS AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. Each shareholder
> will first be asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement. Shareholders should
> keep in mind that every second-level domain which is attached to an eTLD
> henceforth requires payment of $0.00 to all SRS registrars(aside from NSI).
> The default $6.00 that presently goes to the NSI Registrar/Registry to
> maintain the SLDs in the legacy root is of couse a fixed cost - which goes
> each year to NSI for the moment and to its eventual successor, if any. The
> eTLD network is completely scalable, administratively sound from the get-go
> and, for those reasons, will remain completely independent from ICANN and
> ALL other public authorities, including NTIA, U.S. Commerce Department, all
> ccTLDs and (therefore) USG.
>
> Inquiries are invited off list. Other written queries can be faxed to
> 905-729-0966. Thank you. Rick Harris
> Founder
> Idexis Corporation
>
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