In article <v04020a1eb3946c721852@[192.168.0.1]> Gordon Cook wrote:
> I have heard *a LOT* rumors which may or may not be credible. Perhaps some
> of the parties involved would be willing to confirm or deny them>
> This sellout of american interests by clinton, gore, magaziner and beckwith
> burr is very likely to be accompanied by an insistence by NTIA this week
> that NSI sign the ICANN registrar requirements. unfortunately it doesn't
> appear to have dawned on Beckwith that were NSI officers to sign such a
> document, they would become subject to lawsuits by NSI share holders.
> that if NSI doesn't agree to be put out of business at the behest of the
> clinton administration socialists, it will be put out of business at the
> demand of the european socialists by an order from Beckwith to paul vixie
> to make the f root server at the palo alto exchange the "a" server on an
> interim basis
> while IBM and NTIA put the finishing touches on an replacement site for an
> ICANN -run non profit dot com, org, and net registry with equipment
> telephones and leased lines already installed and ready to start taking new
> dot com registrations. (Last fall becky ordered NSI to provide her with a
> manual on how to run the "a" server.)
Where do you have these rumors from? Are you sure that the DoC is
contemplating giving NSI the shaft if NSI does not give in? You are
not the first to tell these rumors (IIRC you told me a liar when I
posted a pointer to an Asensio report that basically said the same
in a less pro-NSI wording).
My guess is that the testbed period will be expanded and that
NSI will make some concessions. The whole process of introducing
registrar-side competition has been like the classic cat-and-mouse
game up to now. Why would that change?
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Onno Hovers, MS/Ir, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
