I don't think PGMedia is a credible plaintiff, Jeff. I know you do (no
surprise there in light of, well, that subject is for another time).
A more credible plaintiff will have more support and be able to make a more
convincing and compelling case. And the appropriate defendent is not NSI,
Jeff, as PGMedia insists. They are going about it all wrong.
On 19-Mar-99 jeff Williams wrote:
> William and all,
>
> True enough. However by the same token it doesn't mean that the
> appeal won't either. Hence the reason for a court of appeals, william.
> In addition if there is more discovery, which is likely in this particular
> case there is a whole new case potentially.
>
> William X. Walsh wrote:
>
> > Doesn't mean the appeal has any more merit than the original case did.
> >
> > On 19-Mar-99 jeff Williams wrote:
> > > Gordon and all,
> > >
> > > As you know, pgMedia has filed an appeal.. So there is still an
> > > agrieved party.
> > >
> > > Gordon Cook wrote:
> > >
> > > > Someone asked: Why was NSI granted a two year extension to the
> > > > Cooperative Agreement without an open re-bid? The end of the
> > > > Cooperative
> > > > Agreement wasn't something that just snuck up and bit NTIA in the
> > > > bottom
> > > > and said "surprise!".
> > > >
> > > > Cook: NTIA wanted to rebid.
> > > >
> > > > NSF saw no need to rebid...... It *WAS* NSF's agreement. therefore
> > > > nothing
> > > > NTIA could do about it. By the time NTIA pryed it away from NSF, it
> > > > was
> > > > abit late.
> > > >
> > > > NTIA has not a shred of legally defensible authority to be doing what
> > > > it is
> > > > doing. I have triple sourced this. But to challenge NTIA now you need
> > > > a
> > > > legally agrieved party. With the PGMedia case now history we don't
> > > > presently have a legally aggrieved party. Damned shame. because NTIA
> > > > will
> > > > soon give ICANN the root and with the DNSO people calling all over
> > > > themselves to get ICANN to comply to their way of thinking they are
> > > > de-facto accepting ICANN legal authority and ensnaring themselves in
> > > > ICANN's clutches.
> > > >
> > > > we need an IODesign lawsuit. It cannot possibly happen too fast.
> > > >
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Date: 19-Mar-99
Time: 19:56:18
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"We may well be on our way to a society overrun by hordes
of lawyers, hungry as locusts."
- Chief Justice Warren Burger, US Supreme Court, 1977