Gordo and all,
Thanks Gordo for sharing this with us. I am sure many found it as
interesting and somewhat uplifting in some respects as I did. I will
also pass this along to our members as well.
Gordon Cook wrote:
> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: And that comment about 'without any of
> the messy enforcement problems' got him in some hot water along with
> adding still more fuel to the fire in the ICANN controversy. ICANN
> has some very bizarre ways they want to deal with domain name disputes
> to say the least ... and without even the slightest, tiny bit of
> netizen input. Individual users and small commercial sites will have
> absolutely no say-so in anything that happens. Have you seen the
> agreement web sites will be required to sign off on in order to keep
> (or register) their domain names? Oh, I know according to some people
> around here we are not supposed to say anything bad about large
> corporations, and how they have 'every right' to be here and how they
> have the right to help set the rules and all that, and how we should
> not object because they want to make a profit on the sale of their
> newspapers, widgets or whatever, but things are getting way, way, way
> past that point. They are going to be the *only* ones who have any
> say about anything if ICANN gets its way.
>
> And please do not call me an old-timer who is galled because the net
> of the 1980's is not around any longer. If I had only purchased a
> computer a month ago, gotten on line and stumbled across Internet
> Society and ICANN by some accident, reading the tons of stuff that's
> been getting sent my way in the past couple days would still scare me
> badly. Those people mean business: they are trying to grab the net
> and run with it; the day congressional and/or Commerce Department
> imprimateur comes down on it -- if it does -- is a day, that as 'they'
> say, will live in infamy. I don't think, however, it is going to
> happen now. Far too many people on the net have been climbing all
> over them. Instead of me being a bitter, frustrated old man, Vint Cerf
> may find himself in that position when MCI-Worldcom wakes up sometime
> soon and realizes the half-million dollars they handed him a month
> ago was squandered by giving it all to a lawyer to pay his fee and
> then the whole thing still went down the tubes. Hey, wasn't that
> lawyer supposed to be pro-bono? That's what Vint Cerf and Esther
> Dyson told us a year ago when they hired him.
>
> MCI-Worldcom is never going to see a nickle of that five hundred
> thousand back which Cerf convinced -- or guilt-tripped maybe? -- them
> into handing over on the premise that the Internet was as good as
> dead unless he and Esther got their way. You know the routine by now,
> no money for Vint and Esther means no e-commerce, and no e-commerce
> means no e-anything. I do not think Cisco is too happy about losing
> 150-thousand in the same racket either. Tomorrow I have another
> installment for you in the special mailings I've been doing, with
> more of their antics. I think you will enjoy it as much as I will
> enjoy bringing it to you. PAT]
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