Ronda, If you want to see what a tangled web these people weave....check out... http://www.east.isi.edu/ http://www.east.isi.edu/projects.html http://www.east.isi.edu/ms/ms.html IPv6 Publicly Available Stack Development for Microsoft Research @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Here we are in 1999, with the U.S. Government supposedly focused on investigating one of the largest companies and success stories in the history of the world. The claim is, that Microsoft dominates software and that other companies can not compete. While this is going on, Microsoft has a U.S. Government funded group developing software for them. Meanwhile, Netscape is funding essentially the same group by virtue of the fact that the ICANN is the product of the late Jon Postel and the 12 Apostels, some of whom live at USC ISI, compliments of MORE U.S. Government funding. ...follow the money...and IP allocations....they tell the whole story... P.S. And while this is going on, we see that NSI was requesting IP allocations. Because ICANN was clueless, they referred NSI to ARIN. ARIN is the product of more U.S. Government meddling and was created by NSI people. I think it is fair to say that IPv4 and IPv6 are U.S. Government territory. It makes no sense for the private sector to waste any time or energy on trying to help manage those resources fairly. Thus, I continue to work on IPv8, for the rest of the human race... @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Jim Fleming Unir Corporation vPC + C+@ + IPv8 + 2,048 TLDs...this network solution is simple... -----Original Message----- From: Ronda Hauben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, February 24, 1999 7:22 AM Subject: Re: [IFWP] ICANN Supporters BOYCOTT !! >Bob Allisat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>http://www.icann.org/contributors.html ... >+ >>+ The ICANN Board of Directors thanks the following contributors >>+ to the ICANN Startup Fund for their generosity: >>+ >>+ Compaq Computer Corporation, $25,000 >>+ IBM, $25,000 >>+ MCI Worldcom, $25,000 >>+ Netscape Communications Corporation, $15,000 >>+ Paul D. Stauffer, $1,000 >>+ Symantec, $15,000 >>+ UUNET, $25,000 > >> Hmm... as suggested by an esteemed collegue perhaps this list is >> a nice start to some form of boycott. Add to that the good folks >> behind the IAHC/CORE <http://www.corenic.org/number.htm> and we >> have quite the nice beginings of an anti-ICANN boycott/protest! > >> Bob Allisat > >And isn't UUNET owned by and part of MCI Worldcom? > >So >>+ MCI Worldcom, $25,000 >+ >>+ UUNET, $25,000 > >------------------------ >MCI Worldcom - $50,000 > >And at least in the 1980's IBM folks were on MCI Worldcom's Board >of directors. And in the privatization of the NSF Backbone, >IBM and MCI worked joined together on that and MCI ended up with >great benefit as a result (and one guesses that IBM did as well >or they wouldn't be back with their hands out for this takeover >of public property.) > >Does anyone know the relationship between MCI and IBM? > >So the MCI worldcom/IBM investment in grabbing control of the >Internet as listed above is $75,000 > >And what about Microsoft's connection to all this? UUNET >is involved with Microsoft. > >Are the other companies connected to each other or to MCI-Worldcom >as well? > >It would be good to hear why they think it is in the public's >interest to give some private, irresponsible and hidden >entities control over the controlling functions of the Internet. > >>+ Netscape Communications Corporation, $15,000 > >Didn't they encourage the U.S. government to bring an >anti trust suit against Microsoft? > >And yet they are happy to take a much greater forcus >of power over the Internet and put it in hidden hands >that are likely to include Microsoft's? > > >Ronda > > > > Netizens: On the History and Impact > of Usenet and the Internet > http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook/ > in print edition ISBN 0-8186-7706-6 >
