Ron, Chris and all,
From a independent point of view we [INEGroup] see
IOD as in a battle for it's very existence. This would of course
include Chris Ambler. I have chided and disagreed with Chris
in the past and will likely do so again in the future, but his
response to ICANN seems, as I earlier posted, to be pretty
good in the my first reading. Our staff will also be reviewing it
as well. I will say that I doubt that ICANN will thoroughly
review this response at this late stage before the Yokohama
meeting. I hope I am not correct here though.
If Chirs Ambler and IOD do get selected as a registry for
.WEB, they will have earned it and IMHO deserve to become
a registry despite my chiding him on several occasions. He has
fought the good fight and deserves the opportunity to run a registry
for .WEB exclusively if possible. My guess is that ICANN
will not allow exclusive registries and that all registrars will have
the right to register DN's in any new gTLD's that may come about
irrespective of whom is the registry. I will also venture a guess
that the ICANN board has already made up it's mind about
.WEB at least and about what restrictions new registries will
have to comply with, even though ICANN cannot even enforce
it's own Registrar agreements as we have seen.
So in closing here, this is not all just about money, but for the
most part money plays a central motivation role, of course.
And there is nothing wrong with that necessarily!
Ron Bennett wrote:
> Michael-
>
> You hit the head right on the nail...it all comes down
> to money...if .WEB succeeds, many people benefit
> including the many thousands of domain holders who
> already have domains in the semi-official .WEB zone.
>
> And of course so does IOD from running the .WEB
> Registry and so does ICANN from all the extra money
> they'll get from Registrars that register .WEB domains.
>
> Everybody makes money...and who knows, maybe
> even NSI will make money too...I'm surprised Verisign
> hasn't considered just buying out IOD and controlling
> .WEB like they do the other gTLDs and ensuring that
> the U.S. intelligence friendly SAIC remains in the loop.
>
> Ron Bennett
>
> At 01:49 AM 7/10/00 -0400, Michael Sondow wrote:
> >Christopher Ambler wrote:
> >
> > > I look forward to seeing many of you in Yokohama this week.
> >
> >Your website says: "Image Online Design is proud to be a sponsor of
> >the ICANN meeting in Yokohama." That's a bit much, isn't it?
> >
> >I guess that, if ICANN approves your .WEB TLD, that will be the end
> >of your protests about ICANN's legitimacy, just as Tony Rutkowsky
> >has buttoned his lip since being hired by NSI.
> >
> >It's all just money, huh? Democracy, the law, justice, fairness,
> >honesty...these mean nothing.
> >
> >Good going, America!
> >
> >
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> >Michael Sondow I.C.I.I.U. http://www.iciiu.org
> >Tel. (718)846-7482 Fax: (603)754-8927
> >============================================================
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