Can you all look at this and make suggestions - it's a draft of a letter
I'm sending my special list of 3,000 media people. Let me know what you
think - suggestions - feel free to correct for spelling and grammer.
love & kisses
Joe Baptista
http://www.dot.god/
dot.GOD Hostmaster
+1 (805) 753-8697
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Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 17:21:14 -0400
From: J. Baptista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MEDIA LETTER
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I am the internet top level administrator for GOD - which see
http://god.pccf.net/ - and I am writing you - a member of the press
to let them know that there are significant developments and changes
to the internet infrastructure in process. The internet community
has lost faith in the United States Governments ability to administer
the internet root servers and I want to let you know that I hold
Becky Burr responsible. Becky is a civil servant with the National
Telecommunications and Information Administration, Department of
Commerce (http://www.ntia.doc.gov/).
One of the internets biggest myths is that the US Government was
ever in charge of the domain system. That is not true. Anyone can
provide root service to the internet community and at this time two
independent organizations are doing just that. The Open Root Server
Consortium (http://www.open-rsc.org/) and the Internet Namespace
Cooperative (http://www.tinc-org.com/). In the orient - root service
is available from i-DNS (http://www.i-DNS.com/). At this time non
us root servers have 0.3% of the domain name space which represents
over 600,000 internet users. A number of private companies do the
same in order to improve service to customers.
The only reason why the United States Government provides a majority
of internet users with domain service is simply because:
1) They were there first
2) They were reliable and stable
In short - the United States root servers were convenient. But that
is no longer the case. The appointment of ICANN (The Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) by the NTIA has ended up
making a dog breakfast of the dns. It's no longer reliable - and no
longer stable. And I hold Becky Burr reponsible for that - her
failure to do her job and provide oversight on ICANN's activities
has resulted in a movement away from ICANN and the US Government's
crude and uneducated attempts to take over central control of the
internet.
This will result in considerable embarrassment to the United States
Government and it's supporters - which see
(http://www.noie.gov.au/projects/international/DNS/gac/index.htm)
At this time a comprehensive educational campaign is being waged by
various groups involved in internet infrastructure and dns. A radio
campaign was launched today - http://www.adns.net/NEWS/2000070501.html
by ADNS who run the top level domains EARTH, USA and Z.
Various groups are also launching various campaigns - which see
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/054025.htm
and
http://www.news.com/Perspectives/Column/0,176,459,00.html?st.ne.per.gif.a
My personal experience in this comes from managing the GOD top level
domain. We went public a few months ago and only expected a few
domains holders to help us in our beta test. Which see -
http://www.internetnews.com/wd-news/article/0,2171,10_364761,00.html
However - instead of a few hundred users - we got over 1,000 users and
just under 8,000 domains registered in GOD space within the three day
registration period. We never expected such a demand for domains. And
I hold Becky Burr responsible for the forced scarcity of namespace on
US servers. Have a look at our stats yourself -
http://god.pccf.net/admin/stats-2000-06-01/index.htm
I hope that you as a member of the media will take enought of an
interest to clean up the US governments backyard. As a US taxpayer
I'm embarrassed to support a government which is trying to take control
of the dns - but is too stupid to realize that ONE - it can't be done
and TWO - in the process of doing that their going to piss off internet
users and end up running a root service no one uses. This is a civil
servant comedy of error that must come to an end or else the US taxpayer
is going to end up holding the bag. Please help us expose this fraud.
Regards
Joe Baptista
http://www.dot.god/
dot.GOD Hostmaster
+1 (805) 753-8697
