Re: [Membership] The People's Republic of ICANN?

1999-02-08 Thread Michael Sondow
Eric Weisberg a écrit: > Just because most people are affected by IP and DN allocation > policies doesn't mean they will participate. We already know THEY > WON'T! How do you know that, Eric? Have they been informed about the creation of ICANN? > That is why I question the wisdom of register

Re: [Membership] The People's Republic of ICANN?

1999-02-08 Thread William X. Walsh
On 09-Feb-99 Bill Lovell wrote: > >-- > >"We may well be on our way to a society overrun by hordes > >of lawyers, hungry as locusts." > >- Chief Justice Warren Burger, US Supreme Court, 1977 > > Is this last supposed to be communicating something, or is it > j

Look at the known facts, not the clouds.

1999-02-08 Thread Eric Weisberg
Bob Allisat wrote: > > Eric Weisberg wrote: > > The "great unwashed" will not join and vote in ICANN > > elections no matter how hard you beat the bushes. > > I figure a lot of average people > will want to get involved if it ever comes to that. I've seen such figuring, but not the basis.

Re: [dnso.discuss] Re: Flawed Drafts submitted to ICANN

1999-02-08 Thread William X. Walsh
On 08-Feb-99 jeff Williams wrote: > All, > >It is unfortunate that folks such as William, have a reality and/or a > reading deficiency problem and there fore refuse to recognize certain > facts. Demonstrations such as William is displaying below in it's > disgusting rancor, have plague

Re: Useful Comments Re: DNSO process and Drafts submitted to ICANN

1999-02-08 Thread Michael Sondow
Roeland M.J. Meyer a écrit: > There is some argument that one can use a Windows machine for primary DNS. I'm a typical end-user. I have a laptop running Windows95. There are configuration pop-ups for TCP/IP and DNS confirguration. But I've never seen a book anywhere, and I've been looking for o

Re: [Membership] The People's Republic of ICANN?

1999-02-08 Thread Bob Allisat
Ms. Dyson wrote: > *I* alone am not ICANN; it is a (growing) collection of people, > including staff, PR consultantsand of course members. Members? You have no members. As for a collection it's more like monkeys you've been assembling. Silly clueless monkeys, a few dorky students, all org

Re: [Membership] The People's Republic of ICANN?

1999-02-08 Thread Bob Allisat
Eric Weisberg wrote: > The "great unwashed" will not join and vote in ICANN > elections no matter how hard you beat the bushes. Gee, Eric... how does that explain Mr. Corcker's participation? I'm sure he's going to vote and if I beat the bushes with a baseball bat I'd not find a greater unwa

Re: [dnso.discuss] Re: Flawed Drafts submitted to ICANN

1999-02-08 Thread jeff Williams
All, It is unfortunate that folks such as William, have a reality and/or a reading deficiency problem and there fore refuse to recognize certain facts. Demonstrations such as William is displaying below in it's disgusting rancor, have plagued these discussions and debates for some time now, an

Re: [dnso.discuss] Re: ISOC

1999-02-08 Thread Michael Sondow
Don Heath a écrit: > > At 01:40 AM 2/8/99 -0500, Michael Sondow wrote: > >Sorry, Mr. Heath, but I didn't agree to continue this discussion in secret, > >so I am posting this to the same recipient list as was used previously. > > No need to apologize. There was nothing in what I wrote to you > t

Re: [Membership] The People's Republic of ICANN?

1999-02-08 Thread Greg Skinner
Ken Freed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Eric Weisberg says the mass of folks on earth will not vote in ICANN >elections, even if asked, so he proposes going instead with public >interest organizations having a say in the process. His notions have >merit, yet notice the assumption that public apathy

Ogilvie's false portrayal of ICANNs pedigree

1999-02-08 Thread Gordon Cook
The press release said: ICANN was created by the global Internet community in response to “Management of Internet Names and Addresses,” a U.S. Government statement of policy issued in June 1998, that invited the global Internet community to form a new, private sector organization to undertake ma

Re: [Membership] The People's Republic of ICANN?

1999-02-08 Thread Bill Lovell
At 04:48 PM 2/8/99 -0800, you wrote: > >On 09-Feb-99 Ken Freed wrote: >> Eric Weisberg says the mass of folks on earth will not >> vote in ICANN elections, even if asked, so he proposes >> going instead with public interest organizations having >> a say in the process. His notions have merit,

Re: [Membership] The People's Republic of ICANN?

1999-02-08 Thread William X. Walsh
On 09-Feb-99 Ken Freed wrote: > Eric Weisberg says the mass of folks on earth will not > vote in ICANN elections, even if asked, so he proposes > going instead with public interest organizations having > a say in the process. His notions have merit, yet notice > the assumption that public ap

Re: [Membership] The People's Republic of ICANN?

1999-02-08 Thread Ken Freed
Eric Weisberg says the mass of folks on earth will not vote in ICANN elections, even if asked, so he proposes going instead with public interest organizations having a say in the process. His notions have merit, yet notice the assumption that public apathy will prevail. I am not convinced this wil

RE: [dnso.discuss] Re: Flawed Drafts submitted to ICANN

1999-02-08 Thread William X. Walsh
Jeff, it is obvious since you refuse to provide ANY contact for people independent of your Homestead Inn telephone number, that you are telling falsehoods. Besides, Gallup staff would receive calls at a GALLUP number, not an INEG number. The point of all this is that if no one can be contacted

Re: [dnso.discuss] Re: Flawed Drafts submitted to ICANN

1999-02-08 Thread jeff Williams
William and all, As I have outlined before, and seemingly you either missed or are displaying an in ability to except that those organizations/companies that are members of the INEGroup will be using our communication IP network through a centralized contact point. That point for the purposes

Play it again Sam.

1999-02-08 Thread Roeland M.J. Meyer
At 02:06 PM 2/8/99 -0800, Kent Crispin wrote: >On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 08:38:29AM -0500, Ken Stubbs wrote: >> i have said repeatedly that kent crispin is not a member of CORE, not an >> employee of any member of CORE, receives no compensation from CORE nor is >> he the official spokesman for COR

Without Membership approval:Press Release: ICANN Releases Draft Accreditation Guidelines

1999-02-08 Thread jeff Williams
Sean and all, The ICANN released through yet another inoculious "Press Release" the intentions of the ICANN regarding "Registrat/Registry Accreditation's" without the input prior to this said "Press Release", of the membership Organization which the ICANN is bound to do through the NTIA/ICANN/M

RE: [dnso.discuss] Re: Flawed Drafts submitted to ICANN

1999-02-08 Thread William X. Walsh
Yes Jeff, we are looking for a number that doesn't ring to YOU. And the name of someone at Gallup that can be contacted AT Gallup. On 08-Feb-99 jeff Williams wrote: > William and all, > >The number as has been repeated to you and all before is as is in my > sig file below. Are you expe

Re: [dnso.discuss] Re: Flawed Drafts submitted to ICANN

1999-02-08 Thread jeff Williams
William and all, The number as has been repeated to you and all before is as is in my sig file below. Are you experiencing a reading impairment problem william? William X. Walsh wrote: > Still waiting for a name and a way of contacting someone that doesn't mean > ringing your number at Homes

Press Release: ICANN Releases Draft Accreditation Guidelines

1999-02-08 Thread Sean Garrett
INTERNET CORPORATION FOR ASSIGNED NAMES AND NUMBERS For Immediate Release February 8, 1999 ICANN Releases Draft Accreditation Guidelines for Domain-Name Registrars- Proposal to be Available for Public Comment at www.icann.org Los Angeles-In a first step towards establishing fair and consistent

RE: [dnso.discuss] Re: Flawed Drafts submitted to ICANN

1999-02-08 Thread William X. Walsh
Still waiting for a name and a way of contacting someone that doesn't mean ringing your number at Homestead. Or the people at Gallup that you claimed helped with the INEG polling efforts. You're gonna have to prove it sometime, Jeff. On 08-Feb-99 jeff Williams wrote: > William and all, > >

Re: [dnso.discuss] Re: Flawed Drafts submitted to ICANN

1999-02-08 Thread jeff Williams
William and all, Of course all 89,000+ members of INEGroup DO NOT share the same phone member, but are routed through that central number of purposes of simplicity and a central point of contact. I SERVE as their elected spokesman only. William X. Walsh wrote: > On 08-Feb-99 jeff Williams wr

RE: [dnso.discuss] Re: Flawed Drafts submitted to ICANN

1999-02-08 Thread William X. Walsh
On 08-Feb-99 jeff Williams wrote: > Stef and all, > >I thought I had just done that on this list, Stef? Is that not correct? > We > through myself submitted our suggested amendments as well several > times. The only way that we are going to resolve these areas of > disagreement > sh

Re: [dnso.discuss] Re: Flawed Drafts submitted to ICANN

1999-02-08 Thread jeff Williams
Stef and all, I thought I had just done that on this list, Stef? Is that not correct? We through myself submitted our suggested amendments as well several times. The only way that we are going to resolve these areas of disagreement short of a law suit, is through voting online. Einar Ste

BOUNCE list@ifwp.org: Non-member submission from [John Charles Broomfield ]

1999-02-08 Thread Richard J. Sexton
>Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 15:07:44 -0500 (EST) >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: BOUNCE [EMAIL PROTECTED]:Non-member submission from [John Charles Broomfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] > >>From manta.outremer.com!jbroom Mon Feb 8 15:07:43 19

Re: [Membership] The People's Republic of ICANN?

1999-02-08 Thread Tamar Frankel
I understand Jonathan's point to be that the interests of activist-Internet users may not coincide with the interests of passive users, and that passive users should have representation with all other interests that affect and are affected by the Internet. After all, passive users affect the Inter

Re: Useful Comments Re: DNSO process and Drafts submitted to ICANN

1999-02-08 Thread Roeland M.J. Meyer
At 12:16 PM 2/8/99 -0500, Michael Sondow wrote: >Roeland M.J. Meyer a écrit: > >> Anyone with knowledge, a Unix system, and a full-time Internet connection >> can do the same. > >Do the average domain name holders have the knowledge, a Unix machine, and >an Internet connection of their own? If not

RE: [dnso.discuss] Re: Paris Draft Site Up with Full Draft Text

1999-02-08 Thread William X. Walsh
On 08-Feb-99 John Charles Broomfield wrote: > > Hi Anthony, > I'm copying below the original message that was sent to ccTLD admins > about the IATLD & RFC-1591. > What I like so much about it is the first line "The subject line says it > all." and then goes on to ramble like crazy. Ok

Re: ISOC

1999-02-08 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
--- Forwarded Message Here is what Mr Heath answered me: - --- Forwarded Message Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 14:38:36 -0500 To: Dr Eberhard W Lisse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Don Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At 10:52 AM 2/8/99 +0200, you wrote: >Please, post to the list of record ([EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Useful Comments Re: DNSO process and Drafts submitted to ICANN

1999-02-08 Thread Bret A. Fausett
Kent Crispin wrote: >If the RCs can ignore the hearings at will, then the hearings in >general are useless, and they might as well be stricken from the >document. I don't think they can ignore the hearings at will, but they need to be able to exercise their professional judgment about what is

Fw: Moving Forward

1999-02-08 Thread Ken Stubbs
here is a copy of a suggestion I sent to andrew kraft to possible move this down the road... something for you all to chew on ... -Original Message- From: Ken Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Andrew Q. Kraft, MAIP, Executive Director <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, February 08, 1999 10:3

Re: [Membership] The People's Republic of ICANN?

1999-02-08 Thread Eric Weisberg
Diane Cabell wrote: > > Greg Skinner wrote: > > > I support the creation of a public interest, or netizens SO, if you > > like. > > That's what the At Large Membership is supposed to be. No. We are discussing why that is NOT so. The "great unwashed" will not join and vote in ICANN electi

Re: Useful Comments Re: DNSO process and Drafts submitted to ICANN

1999-02-08 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Sondow writes: > The average client of an ISP, that is, the average domain name > holder, cannot tell the ISP what to put into their zone file. I've > had trouble with every single one of the five ISPs I've used because > of this, and I've heard the same st

RE: Useful Comments Re: DNSO process and Drafts submitted to ICA

1999-02-08 Thread William X. Walsh
On 08-Feb-99 David Schutt wrote: > Not a good example, my browser timed out. Yeah, a free service sometimes has Hiccups. > There are lots of experimental and/or educational systems out there, I'm > more interested in commercial services that can take a spike without > gasping. I believe

Re: Paris Draft Site Up with Full Draft Text

1999-02-08 Thread William X. Walsh
This is nothing but a blantent misrepresentation of the facts. I know for a fact that Antony did not just post up all the IATLD supporters without contacting them and getting theie explicit support. You will note that not ALL the ccTLDs who are listed as IATLD or RFC1591 supporters are listed as

Re: ISOC

1999-02-08 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Sondow writes: > Dr Eberhard W Lisse a =E9crit: > > > Please, post to the list of record ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) with cc to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] and > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]), who on behalf of ISOC, made what input into the D

Re: [Membership] The People's Republic of ICANN?

1999-02-08 Thread Diane Cabell
Greg Skinner wrote: > I support the creation of a public interest, or netizens SO, if you > like. That's what the At Large Membership is supposed to be. Diane Cabell MAC

Re: [Membership] The People's Republic of ICANN?

1999-02-08 Thread Greg Skinner
Eric Weisberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I do not believe the "general public" has any interest in joining >our group nor in voting for our board. Thus, there must be some >other way of protecting their interests. Perhaps there should be >a "public interest" SO (given that "we" have chosen the

Re: Feb 1 '99 US Court Memorandum: First 8 Findings of Fact

1999-02-08 Thread Greg Skinner
Jay Robert Hauben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Feb 1 1999 in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of >Pennsylvania a Memorandum was issued in the case of ACLU et al vs Reno (Civil >Action NO. 98-5591). I have not had time to read the Memorandum but have found >the first 8

Re: Useful Comments Re: DNSO process and Drafts submitted to ICANN

1999-02-08 Thread Kent Crispin
On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 12:16:50PM -0500, Jay Fenello wrote: > At 2/8/99, 11:48 AM, Kent Crispin wrote: > > > >I am not talking about there being just *one* hearing. As soon as > >the first FH concludes, the second one will be requested, and then > >after that the third, and so on. As far as I c

Re: Useful Comments Re: DNSO process and Drafts submitted to ICANN

1999-02-08 Thread Michael Sondow
Dr Eberhard W Lisse a écrit: > the zone file sits on grumpy.net.na as per an agreement with a local > ISP. Whether they give me physical write access is not the issue, > rather that I decide what gets written into it. The average client of an ISP, that is, the average domain name holder, cannot

Re: Enforcement Provisions (was: Support for Paris draft)

1999-02-08 Thread Kent Crispin
On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 07:34:40AM -0600, John B. Reynolds wrote: > Jay Fenello wrote: > > > > How do you envision ICANN enforcing > > policies onto the registries? > > If all else fails, ICANN has the authority to remove them from its root > zone. It's admittedly the 'nuclear option', but it's

Re: [Membership] The People's Republic of ICANN?

1999-02-08 Thread Greg Skinner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rus Postel) wrote: >i do not qualify for any of the categories of membership suggested, >yet i use the internet and believe i have a right to participate in >democratic decision making. Good point. I believe every Internet user should have the right to participate in the deci

Re: Useful Comments Re: DNSO process and Drafts submitted to ICANN

1999-02-08 Thread Michael Sondow
Roeland M.J. Meyer a écrit: > Anyone with knowledge, a Unix system, and a full-time Internet connection > can do the same. Do the average domain name holders have the knowledge, a Unix machine, and an Internet connection of their own? If not, what is the point to this discussion?

Re: ISOC

1999-02-08 Thread Michael Sondow
Dr Eberhard W Lisse a écrit: > Please, post to the list of record ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) with cc to > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] and > [EMAIL PROTECTED]), who on behalf of ISOC, made what input intot he DNSO > process, in particular DNSO.ORG, when, using which forum, and

Re: Useful Comments Re: DNSO process and Drafts submitted to ICANN

1999-02-08 Thread Jay Fenello
At 2/8/99, 11:48 AM, Kent Crispin wrote: >On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 09:45:28AM -0500, Bret A. Fausett wrote: >> Kent Crispin wrote: >> >Running the hearing slows down the process, intrinsically. A hearing >> >takes time that would have been spent doing other things. As long as >> >I am guaranteed

Re: Paris Meeting

1999-02-08 Thread Jay Fenello
Hi Kerry, These are my personal impressions . . . At 2/5/99, 06:26 AM, Kerry Miller wrote: > >Jay, > >{ 2.1 Membership. >{ >{... Any ICANN member with expertise or interest in domain name >{ issues may join the DNSO General Assembly by submitting a membership >{ application. > >Isnt an '

RE: Enforcement Provisions (was: Support for Paris draft)

1999-02-08 Thread John B. Reynolds
Jay Fenello wrote: > > At 2/8/99, 08:34 AM, John B. Reynolds wrote: > > > > > >Jay Fenello wrote: > >> > >> At 2/7/99, 06:15 PM, John B. Reynolds wrote: > >> > > >> >Milton Mueller wrote: > >> >> > >> >> The Paris draft group, on the other hand, was responsive to this > >> >> same criticism. > >>

Re: Useful Comments Re: DNSO process and Drafts submitted to ICANN

1999-02-08 Thread Kent Crispin
On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 09:45:28AM -0500, Bret A. Fausett wrote: > Kent Crispin wrote: > >Running the hearing slows down the process, intrinsically. A hearing > >takes time that would have been spent doing other things. As long as > >I am guaranteed a "fair hearing" at will, I can slow down the

RE: Useful Comments Re: DNSO process and Drafts submitted to ICANN

1999-02-08 Thread Jay Fenello
At 2/8/99, 09:27 AM, John B. Reynolds wrote: > > 5.11 Further Review of Changes > > Whenever a proposal has been changed as a result of > the preceding processes, any changes resulting from > such processes shall be republished on the DNSO > website and subject to review under the prior > provisio

RE: Enforcement Provisions (was: Support for Paris draft)

1999-02-08 Thread Jay Fenello
At 2/8/99, 08:34 AM, John B. Reynolds wrote: > > >Jay Fenello wrote: >> >> At 2/7/99, 06:15 PM, John B. Reynolds wrote: >> > >> >Milton Mueller wrote: >> >> >> >> The Paris draft group, on the other hand, was responsive to this >> >> same criticism. >> >> I commend them for this. >> > >> >On the o

Re: ISOC

1999-02-08 Thread Gordon Cook
Don Heath has been a consistent supporter of those whom Michael Sondow complains about for years. Some say that he was quick to embrace Robert Shaw and the ITU, and to involve WIPO in the process. Here is some information from my canarie talk in December. "Other's started using Jon postel early

Re: A little off topic

1999-02-08 Thread Ray Hallman
Greg Skinner wrote: > > I also think that if we are talking business models here, consider > that this is just one business model that happens to have a certain > amount of support, but it is not the only one, and not necessarily the > best one. The model of web hosting sites like GeoCities migh

Re: Useful Comments Re: DNSO process and Drafts submitted to ICANN

1999-02-08 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
In message <000801be5376$4f8dec20$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "David Schutt" wr ites: > Translation: Expediency is more important than fairness No, that was a 3 on th Kent-Meter. el

Re: Useful Comments Re: DNSO process and Drafts submitted to ICANN

1999-02-08 Thread Alex Kamantauskas
On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote: > At 09:49 PM 2/7/99 -0500, Michael Sondow wrote: >> John B. Reynolds a écrit: > >>> Every domain name holder directly or indirectly administers a DNS zone >>> file. Are you sure you're not confusing "DNS zone" with "root zone"? >> >> No, the domai

RE: Useful Comments Re: DNSO process and Drafts submitted to ICANN

1999-02-08 Thread David Schutt
Not a good example, my browser timed out. There are lots of experimental and/or educational systems out there, I'm more interested in commercial services that can take a spike without gasping. David Schutt > Linux and BIND are both free software. The real sticking point is the > requisite perm

RE: Useful Comments Re: DNSO process and Drafts submitted to ICANN

1999-02-08 Thread David Schutt
Translation: Expediency is more important than fairness David Schutt > > Running the hearing slows down the process, intrinsically. A hearing > takes time that would have been spent doing other things. As long as > I am guaranteed a "fair hearing" at will, I can slow down the > process. > >

RE: Paris Draft Site Up with Full Draft Text

1999-02-08 Thread Antony Van Couvering
John Charles, Your accusations are the worst sort of unsupported mudslinging. Ordinarily I would ignore it, but this is one of those cases where silence could be dangerous. You seem to doubt the veracity of the IATLD support, presumably because you and your purported not-for-profit (should I ask

RE: Useful Comments Re: DNSO process and Drafts submitted to ICA

1999-02-08 Thread David Schutt
Please supply references. I understand that you may wish to avoid the appearance of promoting a particular service, but I'm sure that some specifics would be very useful to those reading this list. David Schutt > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On B

RE: Paris Draft Site Up with Full Draft Text

1999-02-08 Thread Antony Van Couvering
Eberhard Lisse wrote, > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John > Charles Broomfield writes: > > > Patrick Raimond (the admin contact for ".gp") speaks reasonably good > > English. > > So let him decide. > > > Antony, > > ask Patrick specifically whether he, as the GP ccTLD Aministrator and >

Re: Support for Paris draft

1999-02-08 Thread Jay Fenello
At 2/8/99, 04:47 AM, Kent Crispin wrote: >On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 07:43:57PM -0800, William X. Walsh wrote: > >> > Furthermore, it is explicitly the case that the Names Council only >> > gives recommendations to ICANN. >> >> That is all the DNSO CAN do Kent, so this is no distinction. > >Of cou

RE: Paris Draft Site Up with Full Draft Text

1999-02-08 Thread Antony Van Couvering
John Charles, Is Patrick Raimond the admin contact or is not? Are you now going to say that anyone who doesn't speak English natively shouldn't be able to participate, because s/he might not understand? In re: support of RFC 1591, .GP answered "YES" to the question of whether ICANN should put t

Re: ICANN & DNSO

1999-02-08 Thread Esther Dyson
We'll be posting the two DNSO proposals we received for public comment on our Website today, along with the much-awaited proposed accreditation guidelines for the shared registry system - also for public comment. That's as a prelude to the open meeting and our baord meeting in Singapore. What

RE: Useful Comments Re: DNSO process and Drafts submitted to ICANN

1999-02-08 Thread Bret A. Fausett
John B. Reynolds wrote: > 5.11 Further Review of Changes > > Whenever a proposal has been changed as a result of > the preceding processes, any changes resulting from > such processes shall be republished on the DNSO > website and subject to review under the prior > provisions of this section. >

Re: Useful Comments Re: DNSO process and Drafts submitted to ICANN

1999-02-08 Thread Bret A. Fausett
Kent Crispin wrote: >Running the hearing slows down the process, intrinsically. A hearing >takes time that would have been spent doing other things. As long as >I am guaranteed a "fair hearing" at will, I can slow down the >process. If a hearing catches and corrects a problem before the process

RE: Useful Comments Re: DNSO process and Drafts submitted to ICANN

1999-02-08 Thread John B. Reynolds
Bret A. Fausett wrote: > > Einar Stefferud wrote: > > >Here I am in strong agreement that the whole concept of Fair Hearing > >Panels has been subvertted by inavertant editing whcih converts them > >into a mecahisim to be used to stop progress on any Research Committee > >proposal that someone do

RE: Useful Comments Re: DNSO process and Drafts submitted to ICANN

1999-02-08 Thread John B. Reynolds
> You contact with an ISP to create and maintain a zone file on your behalf. > If you don't like what they do with it, you can move to another > ISP or make > other arrangements. Ultimate control remains vested in you. I don't see > how I could make this any more clear than I already have. Oop

Re: [Membership] The People's Republic of ICANN?

1999-02-08 Thread Eric Weisberg
Jonathan Zittrain wrote: > One conception of ICANN has it performing > functions that affect all internet users, and that therefore should take > the needs of all internet users--including the lazy, time-deprived, or > confused--in mind. (Not to mention future internet users, who may not > curre

RE: Useful Comments Re: DNSO process and Drafts submitted to ICANN

1999-02-08 Thread John B. Reynolds
Michael Sondow wrote: > > John B. Reynolds a écrit: > > > You administer your zone indirectly by controlling which ISP runs it > > directly. > > Administer the zone indirectly? What are you talking about? Is this a game > of semantics to you? It's a file. How do I change it's contents > when it's

RE: Enforcement Provisions (was: Support for Paris draft)

1999-02-08 Thread John B. Reynolds
Jay Fenello wrote: > > At 2/7/99, 06:15 PM, John B. Reynolds wrote: > > > >Milton Mueller wrote: > >> > >> The Paris draft group, on the other hand, was responsive to this > >> same criticism. > >> I commend them for this. > > > >On the other hand, the Paris group was completely unresponsive > t

Feb 1 '99 US Court Memorandum: First 8 Findings of Fact

1999-02-08 Thread Jay Robert Hauben
On Feb 1 1999 in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania a Memorandum was issued in the case of ACLU et al vs Reno (Civil Action NO. 98-5591). I have not had time to read the Memorandum but have found the first 8 Findings of Fact interesting and so I am copying

ICANN & DNSO

1999-02-08 Thread Andrew Q. Kraft, MAIP, Executive Director
Esther, I am writing to ask you a two brief but important questions: 1) Will there be some official notice letting those of us who submitted proposals (and the public) as to which proposals did make it in by the deadline and are thus under consideration? 2) As there are at LEAST two proposals o

Re: Useful Comments Re: DNSO process and Drafts submitted to ICANN

1999-02-08 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Roeland M.J. Meyer" wri tes: > At 09:49 PM 2/7/99 -0500, Michael Sondow wrote: > >John B. Reynolds a écrit: > > >> Every domain name holder directly or > >> indirectly administers a DNS zone file. Are you sure you're not > >> confusing "DNS zone" with "root zone

Re: Useful Comments Re: DNSO process and Drafts submitted to ICANN

1999-02-08 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Michael, John is right. In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Sondow writes: > John B. Reynolds a =E9crit: > > > You administer your zone indirectly by controlling which ISP runs it > > directly. > > Administer the zone indirectly? What are you talking about? Is this > a game of semantics t

Re: Useful Comments Re: DNSO process and Drafts submitted to ICANN

1999-02-08 Thread Roeland M.J. Meyer
At 09:49 PM 2/7/99 -0500, Michael Sondow wrote: >John B. Reynolds a écrit: >> Every domain name holder directly or >> indirectly administers a DNS zone file. Are you sure you're not >> confusing "DNS zone" with "root zone"? > >No, the domain holders don't administer zone files. That's done by t

Re: ICANN Signs Up a Spin Doctor

1999-02-08 Thread Dave Crocker
At 11:06 AM 2/5/99 -0800, Karl Auerbach wrote: > >> ...say things like "open is open", like it was some kind of >> absolute characteristic, instead of the rather vague relative >> charactistic it actually is. > >My metric is this: > >A system is "open" if there is a means for an effective two-way

Re: ISOC

1999-02-08 Thread Roeland M.J. Meyer
Hello Don Heath, I'd like to register a disagreement. Comments interspersed. At 01:40 AM 2/8/99 -0500, Michael Sondow wrote: >Sorry, Mr. Heath, but I didn't agree to continue this discussion in secret, >so I am posting this to the same recipient list as was used previously. > >Don Heath wrote: >

Re: Support for Paris draft

1999-02-08 Thread Kent Crispin
On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 07:43:57PM -0800, William X. Walsh wrote: > > Furthermore, it is explicitly the case that the Names Council only > > gives recommendations to ICANN. > > That is all the DNSO CAN do Kent, so this is no distinction. Of course. However, Jay, Einar, and others have contin

Re: Useful Comments Re: DNSO process and Drafts submitted to ICANN

1999-02-08 Thread Einar Stefferud
All of them! (see Eberhard's question below;-)... I also agree that the initial members of the startup DNSO should be the Zone Administrators and not the Technical Contacts! And, for Michael's information, the fact that he has contractred with an ISP to do everythig for his DNS Zone, and not le

Re: [dnso.discuss] Re: Flawed Drafts submitted to ICANN

1999-02-08 Thread Einar Stefferud
OK -- I suggest that you contact the Paris Draft editors who ar submitting the Parid draft Application to clearly inform them that you do not support the Paris Draft. If you wish, also supply a ReSend of your suggested attachments. Redundancy in such cases is actually a freindly ting to provide;-

Re: ISOC

1999-02-08 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Don, I do not recall, a SINGLE statement by ISOC being sent through the lists that I am connected to. But then I did not subcribe to all and not at the same time. The question of ISOC's participation is however easily solved: Please, post to the list of record ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) with cc to [EM

Re: Useful Comments Re: DNSO process and Drafts submitted to ICANN

1999-02-08 Thread Kent Crispin
On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 10:37:39PM -0500, Bret A. Fausett wrote: > Einar Stefferud wrote: > > >Here I am in strong agreement that the whole concept of Fair Hearing > >Panels has been subvertted by inavertant editing whcih converts them > >into a mecahisim to be used to stop progress on any Resear

Re: [Membership] The People's Republic of ICANN?

1999-02-08 Thread Rus Postel
i do not qualify for any of the categories of membership suggested, yet i use the internet and believe i have a right to participate in democratic decision making. probably i am in a very small minority of users. why exclude us? aren't basic end users entitled to have a say in issues effecting how

Re: [Membership] The People's Republic of ICANN?

1999-02-08 Thread Michael Sondow
Eric Weisberg a écrit: > I agree that there must be a presumption against any impediment to > participation and I really appreciate your concern in this > regard. However, isn't that unnecessary in this organization on > the following grounds--ICANN's particular and limited purposes We don't ye

ISOC

1999-02-08 Thread Michael Sondow
Sorry, Mr. Heath, but I didn't agree to continue this discussion in secret, so I am posting this to the same recipient list as was used previously. Don Heath wrote: > I was sitting directly behind you in the Washington meeting and directly > across from you in the Boston meeting. I was not in M

Re: [Membership] The People's Republic of ICANN?

1999-02-08 Thread Jonathan Zittrain
Eric, This issue has been really troubling me lately. The value of automatic enlistment of members depends on whether membership is seen as a kind of "use it or lose it" thing. One conception of ICANN has it performing functions that affect all internet users, and that therefore should take the

Re: [Membership] The People's Republic of ICANN?

1999-02-08 Thread Eric Weisberg
George Conrades wrote: Michael, your thoughts on this one make a lot of sense to me. Geo. George Conrades wrote: > > Michael, your thoughts on this one make a lot of sense to me. Geo. > > ...it's a good idea. If people registering domain names were > automatically made members, by having a

Re: Useful Comments Re: DNSO process and Drafts submitted to ICANN

1999-02-08 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
In message <001401be52fb$9ddc9320$010a@jbr>, "John B. Reynolds" writes: > Michael Sondow wrote: > > > > Einar Stefferud a écrit: > > > > > I agree with this concern, and I suggest that the initial membership > > > be defined in some other more well defined way. One suggestion that > > > makes

Enforcement Provisions (was: Support for Paris draft)

1999-02-08 Thread Jay Fenello
At 2/7/99, 06:15 PM, John B. Reynolds wrote: > >Milton Mueller wrote: >> >> The Paris draft group, on the other hand, was responsive to this >> same criticism. >> I commend them for this. > >On the other hand, the Paris group was completely unresponsive to criticism >that its veto provisions gave

Re: Useful Comments Re: DNSO process and Drafts submitted to ICA

1999-02-08 Thread William X. Walsh
First of all, can we lose the confrontational tones? On 08-Feb-99 Michael Sondow wrote: > John B. Reynolds a écrit: > > > You administer your zone indirectly by controlling which ISP runs it > > directly. > > Administer the zone indirectly? What are you talking about? Is this a game > of