I suggest that anyone here who wants to save this list and the Internic
send in a FOIA request to the DOC secretary for any personal information
relating to you from this list.
regards
Joe Baptista
http://www.dot.god/
dot.GOD Hostmaster
+1 (805) 753-8697
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, !Dr. Joe Baptista wrote:
>
> The dot.GOD Registry
>
> August 7, 2000
>
> The Honorable Norman Y. Mineta
> Office of the Secretary, Room 5854
> U.S. Department of Commerce
> 14th & Constitution Ave. NW
> Washington, DC 20230
> Fax: 202-482-2741
>
> Dear Mr. Secretary:
>
> This letter will serve to bring to your attention an issue of some
> importance. This weekend participants to the domain policy lists were
> advised by a representative of Network Solutions that the list and all
> associated resources under the domain Internic.net were being terminated
> by the Department of Commerce.
>
> This action initiated by one Becky Burr will result in considerable
> inconvenience to the Internet community. I also suspect it is yet another
> attempt by your department to bury an official record of domain
> issues. The Internic archives located at lists.internic.net is one of
> the largest repositories of issues concerning domain names. These
> archives go back to 1996 and the contributions to it come from every walk
> of life on the Internet.
>
> By closing down these archives your department's actions will result in
> millions of broken links on the World Wide Web which depend on this
> Department of Commerce resource.
>
> I doubt this letter will result in any reversal of your department's
> action. Therefore, I hereby request access to the records under FOIA
> laws. Please provide me with access to all records and items in paper
> form or electronic format which originate from myself, or are replies or
> topics associated with myself, and or the organization "The dot.GOD
> Registry", and or any item dealing with the top level domain for GOD.
>
> Sincerely,
> J. Baptista, Hostmaster & Director
> The dot.GOD Registry
>
>
>
