Re: [IFWP] The continued contract

1999-03-25 Thread Bill Lovell
At 11:24 PM 3/24/99 -0500, you wrote: By the way, if you want to have some fun, start talking about NSI as a "regulated public utility" in the presence of Don Telage, Phil Sbarboro, et al. Watch what color they turn. Well, what they hey, Milton, why not do it right here, where everyone can see

Re: [IFWP] Re: [dnsproc-en] Re: Domain Names are property, says court

1999-03-25 Thread Bill Lovell
At 11:49 PM 3/24/99 -0500, you wrote: The name may be property, but it's the property of ICANN, and leased not to the registrant but to the registrar, who acts in the name of and retains the prerogatives of the property owner, ICANN. Well, we'll see about that. I have in my mind right now a

[IFWP] Re: Court rules domain names are property.

1999-03-25 Thread Jeff Williams
Golan and all, Yes and no. I complicates things as far as WIPO RFC-3 is concerned to be sure, and it may complicate things with respect to how NSI may look at things as well. It may even complicate things with respect to the ICANN's decision in Singapore with respect to the DNSO. However

Re: [IFWP] Re: [dnsproc-en] Re: Domain Names are property, says court

1999-03-25 Thread Einar Stefferud
Thanks Bill -- I have been making that point now for about two years, and you are the first person to restate it in other words! I welcome your support for the concept that ICANN is claiming to onw things that they have not been conceived. My claim is that the "ICANN owns all names" business

Re: [IFWP] Re: [dnsproc-en] Re: Domain Names are property, says court

1999-03-25 Thread Bill Lovell
At 12:08 AM 3/25/99 -0800, you wrote: Thanks Bill -- I have been making that point now for about two years, and you are the first person to restate it in other words! I welcome your support for the concept that ICANN is claiming to onw things that they have not been conceived. My claim is that

RE: [IFWP] FYI

1999-03-25 Thread Ivan Pope
It actually looks like the site for the new registry home page, doesn't it? No, it looks like the old NSI-InterNIC site. The new Registry site would: NOT have a huge link to NSI NOT allow users to register domains BE aimed at all Registrars equally INFORM visitors how to find a Registrar and

RE: [IFWP] FYI

1999-03-25 Thread A.M. Rutkowski
If that were the case, it would be appropriate for http://www.internic.net and http://rs.internic.net to continue to point to it, since InterNIC is the registry (the registrar is WorldNIC). John, Yep. Thought it might be a staging site for a new registry home page, but it just looks like the

Re: [IFWP] PSO Formation

1999-03-25 Thread Dave Crocker
At 01:09 AM 3/24/99 -0500, Milton Mueller wrote: Whoever it is described IETF as the "single largest repository of sane understanding of the social consequences of the Internet." Social consequences, eh? Take that, all you economists, psychologists, historians, sociologists, law professors, and

[IFWP] Moral Outrage?! Morally Outrageous!!

1999-03-25 Thread Bob Allisat
Dave Crocker writes: Would it not be more productive to focus the moral outrage on the continued detriment of the user community, who remain deprived on additional DNS name space and DNS registration competition, after five years of delay? Mr. Crocker's words of outrage are most amusing.

RE: [IFWP] FYI

1999-03-25 Thread cgomes
I know many refuse to accept this, but the old InterNIC was a hybrid site involving both registry (DNS) and registrar (customer) functions and it is very easy to establish that most of the functions on the InterNIC site were registrar related. InterNIC was not a registry. There was no registry,

RE: [IFWP] FYI

1999-03-25 Thread John B. Reynolds
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know many refuse to accept this, but the old InterNIC was a hybrid site involving both registry (DNS) and registrar (customer) functions and it is very easy to establish that most of the functions on the InterNIC site were registrar related. InterNIC was not a

Re: [IFWP] PSO Formation

1999-03-25 Thread Dave Farber
Where are you in meat space? At 12:58 PM 3/25/99 +0100, you wrote: At 01:09 AM 3/24/99 -0500, Milton Mueller wrote: Whoever it is described IETF as the "single largest repository of sane understanding of the social consequences of the Internet." Social consequences, eh? Take that, all you

RE: [IFWP] FYI

1999-03-25 Thread cgomes
John, Note that I said it was a hybrid that involved registry and registrar functions. NSI certainly provided registry functions under InterNIC as it did registrar functions. But there was not a registry per se. Chuck -Original Message- From: John B. Reynolds [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [IFWP] FYI

1999-03-25 Thread Kent Crispin
On Thu, Mar 25, 1999 at 08:08:58AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know many refuse to accept this, but the old InterNIC was a hybrid site involving both registry (DNS) and registrar (customer) functions and it is very easy to establish that most of the functions on the InterNIC site were

Re: [IFWP] FYI

1999-03-25 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kent Crispin writes: On Thu, Mar 25, 1999 at 08:08:58AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know many refuse to accept this, but the old InterNIC was a hybrid site involving both registry (DNS) and registrar (customer) functions and it is very easy to establish

Re: [IFWP] FYI

1999-03-25 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
In message 000201be76ca$2c4f04c0$010a@jbr, "John B. Reynolds" writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know many refuse to accept this, but the old InterNIC was a hybrid site involving both registry (DNS) and registrar (customer) functions and it is very easy to establish that most

Re: [IFWP] FYI

1999-03-25 Thread Roeland M.J. Meyer
At 07:26 AM 3/25/99 -0800, Kent Crispin wrote: On Thu, Mar 25, 1999 at 08:08:58AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know many refuse to accept this, but the old InterNIC was a hybrid site involving both registry (DNS) and registrar (customer) functions and it is very easy to establish that

[IFWP] NSI purposely disseminated misleading information

1999-03-25 Thread Ivan Pope
As far as I can see, the InterNIC site was where NSI fulfilled their duties to the USG and the networksolutions.com site was where they offered a value added service. It is of course entirely self serving that NSI now claims the InterNIC site as a Registrar site rather than a Registry site.

Re: [IFWP] NSI purposely disseminated misleading information

1999-03-25 Thread Martin B. Schwimmer
The basis for Asensio's misinformation charge is explained in its web site at www.asensio.com in a document other than the press release cited by Yahoo. One sentence caught my eye: "There is no reasonable basis to expect that NSOL's DNS contract will not completely be terminated on or before

RE: [IFWP] NSI purposely disseminated misleading information

1999-03-25 Thread Clough, Christopher
Ivan, In the interest of full disclosure to the Internet community are you willing to disclose your repeated failed attempts to sell your company to Network Solutions? Chris Clough Network Solutions -Original Message- From: Ivan Pope [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March

Re: [IFWP] NSI purposely disseminated misleading information

1999-03-25 Thread Gordon Cook
yeah.quite an interesting report and one based on the assumption that right NOW the word of ICANN is LAW which is false The report reads like it was prepared by ICANN's PR firm... Asensio makes a number of allegations in the document ones that in my opinion could only be proven or

RE: [IFWP] NSI purposely disseminated misleading information

1999-03-25 Thread Clough, Christopher
Asensio is a documented short seller. Previous attacks have been on smaller companies to cover their financial position. -Original Message- From: Martin B. Schwimmer [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 25, 1999 2:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IFWP] NSI

Re: [IFWP] NSI purposely disseminated misleading information

1999-03-25 Thread Bill Lovell
At 02:33 PM 3/25/99 -0500, you wrote: yeah.quite an interesting report and one based on the assumption that right NOW the word of ICANN is LAW which is false Would you care to document that assertion? Bill Lovell

[IFWP] Curiouser and Curiouser!

1999-03-25 Thread Bob Allisat
Chris Clough writes (ouch!): Ivan, In the interest of full disclosure to the Internet community are you willing to disclose your repeated failed attempts to sell your company to Network Solutions? What next! The pope caught with his pants ankle territory in bed with the devil! And

RE: [IFWP] NSI purposely disseminated misleading information

1999-03-25 Thread Robert Raisch
When NSOL went public, I stated rather loudly in a number of online venues that, when the dust settled and the market took a hard look at NSOL's SEC filings, someone would end up in prison for securities fraud. -- Robert Raisch, Internet Hired Gun http://www.raisch.com First snow, then

RE: [IFWP] NSI purposely disseminated misleading information

1999-03-25 Thread Martin B. Schwimmer
Is it the job of the spokesperson to set forth the truth or attack the critic? Were Mr. Pope's dealings confidential? Will NSI now disclose all its confidential business dealings? Has NSI had any contacts with Thomson and Thomson recently? I noticed that they were running creation date info

RE: [IFWP] Re: the news...

1999-03-25 Thread cgomes
Ivan, They are not sending them to the registry now. They are sending them to the registrar portion of the hybrid registry/registrar system, so I would expect that to continue if they continue to do business with NSI as the registrar, no switch needed. Chuck -Original Message- From:

RE: [IFWP] NSI purposely disseminated misleading information

1999-03-25 Thread Patrick Greenwell
On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Clough, Christopher wrote: Ivan, In the interest of full disclosure to the Internet community are you willing to disclose your repeated failed attempts to sell your company to Network Solutions? Ooh, this is great. You sound a bit agitated Chris. Losing lots on

RE: [IFWP] NSI purposely disseminated misleading information

1999-03-25 Thread Bill Lovell
At 02:33 PM 3/25/99 -0500, you wrote: Asensio is a documented short seller. Previous attacks have been on smaller companies to cover their financial position. Seems to me to be a lot of beating up on the messenger here. Either what was written up by asensio is true, or it is not, and that

RE: Asensio attack: ([IFWP] NSI purposely disseminated misleading information)

1999-03-25 Thread Clough, Christopher
Asensio subject of 9 lawsuits: http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/990318/pa_hemisph_1.html Norman E. Murphy, Plaintiff vs. Steinberg Lyman, a New York corporation, and MANUEL P. ASENSIO, individually, Defendants. http://pages.prodigy.net/kjnowell/murphy.htm Copies of a judgement against Asensio for

Re: [IFWP] NSI purposely disseminated misleading information

1999-03-25 Thread Gordon Cook
1. for the purposes of amendment 11...period end of discussion. NTIA has not yet blessed the registrar requirements. 2. ICANN has yet to issue decrees and an action of ICANN has yetr top be upheld in a court of law. At 02:33 PM 3/25/99 -0500, you wrote: yeah.quite an interesting

[IFWP] Short Seller Attack

1999-03-25 Thread Clough, Christopher
FYI -- -- Network Solutions Notes Short Seller Action Herndon, Va., March 25, 1999 - Network Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: NSOL), the world leader in Web address registrations, today acknowledged that it has become the subject of a short seller action. Asensio and Co. is self-described as

Re: [IFWP] NSI purposely disseminated misleading information

1999-03-25 Thread Jeff Williams
Martin and all, Well Martin there are many reasons why early termination of a government contract may occur, your suspicion not withstanding. It appears that you are either attempting to assign some sort of conspiracy associated with that comment made in the www.asensio.com document to which

Re: [IFWP] Re: [dnsproc-en] Re: Domain Names are property, says court

1999-03-25 Thread Jeff Williams
Stef and all, It has been readily apparent that from the beginning of the ICANN formation that they were intending to claim ownership of all of the information even remotely related to DN's, IP addresses, and Protocols. This was plainly evident in the discussions over the bylaws as I recall.

[IFWP] Re: Let's create the gTLD constituency

1999-03-25 Thread Jeff Williams
Stef and all, This is a good suggestion Stef. However I would differ with you with respect to your statement below, "ORSC has the greater collection of all prospective new gTLDs". In fact you know this is not correct or a bit of an overstatement. With respect to Stakeholders INEGroup is far

[IFWP] Re: NSOL Possesses No Lock on Domain Registry or Registrar Businesses

1999-03-25 Thread Jeff Williams
Kevin and all, And just what reports to which you refer, might those be Kevin? Do you have any documentation to support such and aspersion? If so please cite them for us... In addition your continued attempts to color NSI in a negative light is in itself suspicious in nature and in

Re: [IFWP] FYI

1999-03-25 Thread Jeff Williams
Whomever this might be and all, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kent Crispin writes: On Thu, Mar 25, 1999 at 08:08:58AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know many refuse to accept this, but the old InterNIC was a hybrid site involving both registry (DNS) and

RE: [IFWP] asensio purposely disseminated misleading information

1999-03-25 Thread Patrick Greenwell
On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Clough, Christopher wrote: Not at all. Just thought the list might want to know. We can still afford to take you dinner again Patrick :^) Great, I look forward to it. :-) /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Patrick

Re: [IFWP] asensio purposely disseminated misleading information

1999-03-25 Thread Jeff Williams
Chris and all, DId Patrick bite the hand that fed him once upon a time? Well, given his attitude, I for one, am not suprised. Clough, Christopher wrote: Not at all. Just thought the list might want to know. We can still afford to take you dinner again Patrick :^) -Original

RE: [IFWP] asensio purposely disseminated misleading information

1999-03-25 Thread Clough, Christopher
Not at all. Just thought the list might want to know. We can still afford to take you dinner again Patrick :^) -Original Message- From: Patrick Greenwell [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 25, 1999 4:44 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Asensio subject of 9 lawsuits (was RE: Asensio attack: ([IFWP] NSI purposely disseminated misleading information))

1999-03-25 Thread Carl Oppedahl
At 03:12 PM 3/25/99 , Clough, Christopher wrote: Asensio subject of 9 lawsuits: NSI is and has been the subject of far more than nine lawsuits, in case anybody has forgotten.

RE: [IFWP] asensio purposely disseminated misleading information

1999-03-25 Thread Richard J. Sexton
We can still afford to take you to dinner again Patrick :^) Woah! What was this never disclosed, Patrick. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] "Those who give up a little freedom for a little security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one" --Thomas Jefferson

RE: [IFWP] (asensio) purposely disseminated misleading information

1999-03-25 Thread Clough, Christopher
Is it the job of the spokesperson to set forth the truth or attack the critic? Set forth the truth and illuminate the darkness. Were Mr. Pope's dealings confidential? Yes. Will NSI now disclose all its confidential business dealings? see above Has NSI had any

Re: Asensio subject of 9 lawsuits (was RE: Asensio attack: ([IFWP] NSI purposely disseminated misleading information))

1999-03-25 Thread Jeff Williams
Carl and all, True enough. However I was not aware that this was abaseball game? So are we keeping score? What inning is it anyway? ;) Carl Oppedahl wrote: At 03:12 PM 3/25/99 , Clough, Christopher wrote: Asensio subject of 9 lawsuits: NSI is and has been the subject of far more than

RE: [IFWP] asensio purposely disseminated misleading information

1999-03-25 Thread Patrick Greenwell
On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Richard J. Sexton wrote: We can still afford to take you to dinner again Patrick :^) Woah! What was this never disclosed, Patrick. No one ever asked? I have had dinner on NSOL a few times actually, and Gabe Batistia and I took a cab together in Switzerland, which he

[IFWP] Fwd: Re: NSOL Possesses No Lock on Domain Registry or Registrar Businesses

1999-03-25 Thread Roeland M.J. Meyer
X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 09:37:56 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: NSOL Possesses No Lock on Domain Registry or Registrar Businesses Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender:

Re: [IFWP] asensio purposely disseminated misleading information

1999-03-25 Thread Jeff Williams
Richard and all, Well I suppose this tid bit of info disqualifies poor old Patrick Greenwood from ever qualifying for any kind of Registrar business in the near term with ICANN anyway, eh? ;) Not that it is any great loss of course Richard J. Sexton wrote: We can still afford to

Re: [IFWP] NSI purposely disseminated misleading information

1999-03-25 Thread Kent Crispin
On Thu, Mar 25, 1999 at 05:12:48PM -0500, Clough, Christopher wrote: Asensio subject of 9 lawsuits: http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/990318/pa_hemisph_1.html [...] http://pages.prodigy.net/kjnowell/murphy.htm [...] http://www.fool.com/EveningNews/1998/EveningNews980609.htm [...]

[IFWP] RE: Asensio subject of 9 lawsuits (was RE: Asensio attack: ([IFWP] NSI purposely disseminated misleading information))

1999-03-25 Thread Clough, Christopher
The number is 56. At significant cost and risk to the company. Carl you'll recall this: Cases 97N1496 and 97N2456, Oppedahl and Larson v. Network Solutions Motion hearing and trial preparation conference (June 4, 1998) Denver, Colo. -Original Message- From: Carl Oppedahl

Re: [IFWP] RE: Asensio subject of 9 lawsuits (was RE: Asensio attack: ([IFWP] NSI purposely disseminated misleading information))

1999-03-25 Thread Carl Oppedahl
At 06:48 PM 3/25/99 , Clough, Christopher wrote: At 03:12 PM 3/25/99 , Clough, Christopher wrote: Asensio subject of 9 lawsuits: NSI is and has been the subject of far more than nine lawsuits, in case anybody has forgotten. The number is 56. At significant cost and risk to the company. Carl

[IFWP] RE: Re: NSOL Possesses No Lock on Domain Registry or Registrar Businesses

1999-03-25 Thread John B. Reynolds
Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote: I got curious and found out that todays NSOL drop was peanuts compared to Wednesdays drop, of over 100 points, the day before the Asensio press release. http://quote.yahoo.com/q?s=NSOLd=5d That's not a real drop, it's a 2-for-1 stock split. See

[IFWP] Re: Take that NSOL!!!

1999-03-25 Thread Jeff Williams
in particular. Bob Collie wrote: http://quicken.excite.com/investments/news/story/?story=/news/stories/pr/19990325/nyth025.htmsymbol=nsol A very insightful article... and we'll just have to see how true it is as time goes on. -Bob -- Bob Collie, VP/Chief Technical Officer, Telalink Corporation mailto

[IFWP] [Fwd: NEW DEADLINE FOR TESTBED REGISTRAR ACCREDITATION: APRIL 8, 1999]

1999-03-25 Thread Jeff Williams
All, FYI. Should you be thinking of competing with NSI under yet another monopoly known as ICANN, here is some interesting information for you Goo luck! Regards, -- Jeffrey A. Williams CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng. Information Network Eng. Group. INEG.

[IFWP] Re: Fwd: Re: NSOL Possesses No Lock on Domain Registry or Registrar Businesses

1999-03-25 Thread Jeff Williams
Roeland and all, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote: >X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 >Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 09:37:56 -0800 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" [EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: NSOL Possesses No Lock on Domain Registry or

[IFWP] Re: NSOL Possesses No Lock on Domain Registry or Registrar Businesses

1999-03-25 Thread Jeff Williams
Mark, Roeland and all, For an answer to your question you could check their last report filing to the SEC at: http://quicken.elogic.com/sec_full.asp?ticker=NSOL Looking good to me!!! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote: > > I got curious and found out that todays NSOL drop was

[IFWP] NEW DEADLINE FOR TESTBED REGISTRAR ACCREDITATION: APRIL 8, 1999

1999-03-25 Thread msvh
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today announced that it will extend the deadline for submission of applications to participate in the SRS testbed program from March 29 to April 8, 1999. (For details on Registrar Accreditation and the SRS testbed program for the