On Wed, 16 Jun 1999 19:30:54 -0400, "Kevin J. Connolly"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Dear Readers:
>
>As I am sure many of you are aware, there have been calls for one or more
>constituencies that would embrace individuals as such. These initiatives have sought
>to confer upon interested individuals somewhat more say in domain name governance
>than would be available under the rubric of the General Assembly.
>
>One of the more vocal proponents of that initiative has been an organization calling
>itself, variously, the "Individual Domain Name Owners <something>",
><http://www.idno.org> and "The Cyberspace Association." A brief review of the
>content of the website reveals some vague obeisance in the direction of "democracy."
>One would expect as much. After all, one of the buttons that we would expect the
>IDNO's to push is the "Democracy is good" button.
>
>Don't be suckered-in by them. They're about as democratic as the Central Committee
>of the CPSU(b). And I am their Leonid Trotsky :-)
>
>I was a co-founder of IDNO. However, I was foolish enough to criticize several
>aspects of its activities:
>
> (A) ICANN-bashing
> (B) ISOC-bashing
> (C) Threats made by a single individual to squelch the comments being made on
>the IDNO mailing list by Dave Crocker and Kent Crispin.
> (D) Votebots launched at the whim of a single individual to remove Dave and
>Kent from the mailing list.
> (E) NSI-sucking-up.
>
>The immediate result was that I was expelled from membership in IDNO. No warnings.
>No notice. No voting. Simply expelled by fiat of Joop Teemstra.
Now who is lying, Kevin?
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William X. Walsh
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