FYI: >Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 00:17:40 -0700 >From: "Bradley D. Thornton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [Fwd: Please review] > >Mr. Greenwell, > >Please note that on behalf of the NOMAD Internetwork, NorthTech >Computer, and Linboard International, I fully endorse the contents of >your letter to Mr. Nader and Mr. Love. You have my express permission >and consent to make copies of, and distribute this correspondance to any >parties that you feel may make a difference toward the better in this >fight against the heretofor unchecked corruption, conspiracy, and >obfuscation concerning and surrounding the activities of the sham >commonly known as ICANN. > >Futhermore, you will also note, that the United States Revolutionary War >was preceeded by several instances of the public addressing their >immediate central concerns over the treatment with which they were >receiving at the hands of a despot ruler commonly refered to as "That >Bastard King George". Of these, one of the most universally indellible >has come to be universally known as, "The Boston Tea Party." > >Finally, it should be stated that neither I, or the other corportate >entities mentioned above currently recognize any self imposed authority >that an illegally operated, embezzling junta such as ICANN, or any other >organizied crime syndicate claims to wield. As you twice mentioned in >your letter, there are currently over 240 TLD's. The public network >exists because of and by the efforts of, the public. > >Notwithstanding any personal or professional differences I may with the >white paper, no organization or authority, under the terms and spirit >explicitly stated in the white paper currently exists. Therefore all >contracts entered into with the aforementioned and illegally operated >ICANN by parties coerced or otherwise, naming ICANN as authoritative in >matters of dispute and regulation, are null and void. > >This public network (The Internet) is a gift, - yes, a gift - of the >United States Government to the people of the world and is not owned by >any individual or corporation, public or privately held. Many parts of >this Global network such as the various backbones and the domain name >space are either managed or owned by corporations and individuals, and >it is their perogative as to how the standards and practices of those >respective parts of this global network will be administered. Period. >The term, "internetwork", by definition describes a situation of >connectivity where various and numerous standards, protocols, operating >systems, and hardware platforms are implemented in a heterogeneous >computing environment and providing communications across these various >layers and boundaries in a cooperative endeavor -successfully. > >Standards and protocols which do not work are discarded. Like the IAHC >and ICANN as well as obsolete RFCs. > >Only through the practices of cooperation, compromise, and the >aggressive exploitation of emerging technology will this grand highway >remain open and unencumbered in it's stumbling of forwardness towards >maturation - whatever that "maturation" may imply. The Universe does not >exist independant of the thought of the participant. Those who believe >otherwise end up not participating. > >It is the responsibility of IANA to oversee the delegation of the IP >Adress space. It is the responsibility of the various telcos, and ISP's >to decide with whom they will enter into agreements with to allow access >to and procide services for. It is the responsibility of the >corporations and individuals to decide whether they will participate. >It's just that plain and simple. everything else is pretend, as my three >year old daughter would say. > >I will continue to sell services for exorbitant fees when I so whim, and >give the world free Internet access when I desire. And no one can or >will ever tell me any different. I own my company and can charge >anything I want or nothing at all as long as it is what the market will >bear. I have the freedom to like or hate Bill gates, Jon Postel, Steve >Wozniac and Linus Torvalds. I can run my network on an ENIAC if I so >choose. I can develop different communications protocols and name spaces >and addressing schemes and enter into agreements with foriegn networks >to communicate with them via those new standards - and that's between no >one but the carriers involved, the other networks, and me. > >In closing I need to state once again that this network belongs to the >public and not some globetrotting brigands claiming power incarnate. >They only exist until you start laughing at them. This public that we >all hold so dearly will do, ultimately, what it wants. If that includes >ICANN then so be it, but it appears that there are enough of us out here >that disregard this psuedo-authority of ICANN that it ultimately will >make little difference how important they think they are. So to all of >you to whom this correspondance eventually makes it's way to, I would >like to leave one final thought in the form of a metaphor.... > >"Fuck your tea! I'll drink coffee." > >Sincerely, > >Bradley D. Thornton >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >-- > (o o) > |----------------------oOO-(_)-OOo-------------------------| > | Bradley D. Thornton "So foul a sky clears | > | Mgr NetWork Services not without a storm" | > | NOMAD Internetwork - Shakespeare - | > | www.linboard.com | > |----------------------------------------------------------| > |-----On the Beaches of Super Sunny Southern California----| > |==========================================================| Respectfully, Jay Fenello President, Iperdome, Inc.� 404-943-0524 ----------------------------------------------- What's your .per(sm)? http://www.iperdome.com
