Joe and all,
Joe, please add me as a signatory onto this letter. I hope you
have also sent it to some press folks too. If not please let me know
and I will be happy to do so for you if you like. This should be
published.
!Dr. Joe Baptista wrote:
> 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
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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
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