>Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 20:34:48 -0500 (EST) >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: BOUNCE [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Non-member submission from ["Name.Space" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] > >>From name-space.com!pg Wed Feb 24 20:34:47 1999 >Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Received: from HOSTRELAY.NAME-SPACE.NET([209.48.2.8]) (3751 bytes) by ns1.vrx.net > via sendmail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe > (sender: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 20:34:46 -0500 (EST) > (Smail-3.2.0.100 1997-Dec-8 #2 built 1997-Dec-18) >Received: from [209.48.2.88] (209.48.2.88) by HOSTRELAY.NAME-SPACE.NET with > ESMTP (Eudora Internet Mail Server 2.2); Wed, 24 Feb 1999 20:33:27 +0000 >X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Message-Id: <v03110716b2fb62a19362@[209.48.2.88]> >In-Reply-To: <000201be605a$5e536780$0100000a@jbr> >References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: "Name.Space" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: [IFWP] Is NSI a monopoly? >Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 20:33:27 +0000 > >>Milton Mueller wrote: >>> >>> >From the article: >>> >>> "Since PGMedia filed its suit, however, the Internet landscape has >>> changed drastically, throwing a monkey wrench into an >>> already-complicated lawsuit. Last fall, the National Science >>> Foundation passed responsibility for the Internet to Commerce >>> Department, which in turn has laid out a plan to turn administration >>> to a private company and open up registration competition. By March, >>> five companies are slated to offer wholesale registration to addresses >>> ending in ".com," ".net," and ".org," and by June, the field is slated >>> to be opened to any accredited registrar." >>> >>> My reply: >>> So what? Anybody can register names in com net and org now. New >>> registrars don't add new TLDs. >>> >>> My further comment: >>> Where are all those "shared TLD" advocates from the gTLD-MoU days? >>> PGMedia is arguing for a completely open, shared namespace. Of course, >>> it wouldn't be under the control of POC, PAB, or CORE--or ICANN. I >>> guess that makes it kinda unattractive, eh? >>> >>> --MM >>> >> > >"John B. Reynolds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>The reason for PGMedia's lack of support is that their stated plans are >>simply not credible. Their version of shared registries depends upon >>universal replacement of the existing DNS with their vaguely described and >>questionably feasible SINDI and PAM protocols. Their "interim solution" in >>the absence of these protocols would effectively give PGMedia absolute >>authority over all new TLDs, thereby replacing the existing NSI monopoly >>with an NSI/PGMedia duopoly. > >This assessment is totally inaccurate. >SINDI does not replace BIND, it "helps" it. >It has been tested in our lab and we are now >working on a version for release. It works. > >PAM (Portable Address Manager) is already in existance and our users love it. >Also, our sWhois is a big hit as well (http://swhois.net) > >Your conclusion that Name.Space and NSI will be a duopoly also >shows a careless reading of our interim pre-sharing plan. This >is clearly not our intent. > >Here is a direct quote from our proposal: > >[...] > >Interim solution: > > all registries up and running currently with tld's > will have any populated zones added to the "." file > either through court action against NSI, or through > industry consensus, or both. > >Committment to development: > > in the short term, there will be clusters of shared tld's, > reselling (wholesale) agreements of legacy tld's, as well > as new ones where sharing is not yet implemented. > > This puts people in business and makes new namespaces available > in the short term to benefit the public, and doesn't stall the > the birth of a new industry by virtue of a simple text edit. > >[...] > >reference: http://namespace.org/expand > >Please inform youself fully of the facts (not your biased interpretation) >before you make such (wrong) public declarations about Name.Space. > >thank you. > >Paul Garrin, >President >Name.Space >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://name.space-beats-internic.net > > >"Hack code, not people" > > > > > > > -- "How gratifying for once to know... that those up above will serve those down below" - S. Todd [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It's all just marketing" +1 (613) 473-1719 Maitland House, Bannockburn, Ontario, CANADA, K0K 1Y0
