[IFWP] The NTIA take on all this

1999-04-22 Thread Bill Lovell
Here's amendment 13: http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/amendment13.htm And here's the Registrar License and Agreement http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/rla42199.htm In case anybody missed them. Bill Lovell

Re: [IFWP] A Presidential Issue?

1999-04-22 Thread Jeff Williams
Mr. Buchanan and all, I am cc'ing this back to the IFWp list to insure that YOU and your chorines understand me very clearly. First, I support President Clinton's decision to launch air strikes on Yugoslavia and the Molosovich regime. The only mistake is that these strikes were not hard enoug

[IFWP] Re: speculators?

1999-04-22 Thread Jeff Williams
Phil and all, Phil Howard wrote: William X. Walsh wrote: > As a web hosting provider, I would not want to tarnish my reputation > by being associated in any way with certain types of sites.  As a > service provider, I feel there is some obligation to let other > providers know when questionable c

[IFWP] Re: speculators?

1999-04-22 Thread Jeff Williams
William and all, William X. Walsh wrote: On Thu, 22 Apr 1999 16:15:22 -0700, "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >William and I part company on this one and I'm surprised to find myself siding with Santagata here. Michael Bryan is saying the same thing, the right-think way. There sh

[IFWP] Re: speculators

1999-04-22 Thread Jeff Williams
Michael and all, You are essentially correct Michael. The William Walsh's and ICANN's of the world would have all of us give up our rights to freedom of thought and an open forum for expression of those thought in the DNS, unless it fit's their vision. I believe this subject that these sort o

[IFWP] More Kent crispin Rantings over PSO concerns to:[Fwd: suggested change to PSO draft]

1999-04-22 Thread Jeff Williams
All, This may be of interest to some. It appears that another battle on the PSO is in the brewing... Regards, -- Jeffrey A. Williams CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng. Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC. E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact Number: 972-447-1894

[IFWP] Re: speculators?

1999-04-22 Thread Jeff Williams
Roeland and all, Here Here! Exactly right. However it is not just the left wing political movement here that is at fault but the Right wing just a much. I thankfully do not belong to either the Democratic or Republican party's I would not wish to be tarnished with their political dribble and

[IFWP] Re: speculators?

1999-04-22 Thread Jeff Williams
All, ROFLMAO! William, your reputation is already trashed and in the incinerator. It is now only a matter of it being set alight. Soon all that will be left is smoke and Ash... And if you keep this sort of disingenuous attitude up, that will be sooner rather than later. Note: Brian, her

[IFWP] Re: speculators?

1999-04-22 Thread Jeff Williams
Michael and all, Well said Michael, very well said indeed. You follow my sentiments as well as it appears James's as well. This has been the slippery slope that Mr Walsh and the ICANN to a even greater extent would have us follow none the less. One that is repressive, and in stark disagreeme

[IFWP] Re: speculators

1999-04-22 Thread Jeff Williams
James and all, Well responded to James, very well done indeed. I concur completely. This type of Malosavich attitude that Mr. Walsh displays is indeed despicable and very troubling indeed. James Santagata wrote: > At 09:35 PM 4/22/99 GMT, William X. Walsh wrote: > >On Thu, 22 Apr 1999 14:29:

[IFWP] William Walsh, Censorship Czar? Kumquats and all.. to:Re: speculators

1999-04-22 Thread Jeff Williams
All, It appears that Mr. Walsh is a strong believer in Censorship in some form or another. Mr. Walsh, maybe you should move to Belgrade Yugoslavia, I am sure that you would be very happy there! Although it is a bit noisy there right now. Small price to pay for your philosophical beliefs, eh?

Re: [IFWP] Re: speculators

1999-04-22 Thread William X. Walsh
Kumquats On Thu, 22 Apr 1999 15:26:35 +0100, Jeff Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >James and all, > > Well said James, very well said indeed. Censorship in any of its >forms is WRONG. Folks/kooks like Mr. Walsh whom believe in the >idea of selective censorship would take us all down to e

[IFWP] Re: speculators

1999-04-22 Thread Jeff Williams
James and all, Well said James, very well said indeed. Censorship in any of its forms is WRONG. Folks/kooks like Mr. Walsh whom believe in the idea of selective censorship would take us all down to exactly what they wish to avoid, yet are too blinded to see it... James Santagata wrote: > At

Re: [IFWP] Role of Government in Internet development

1999-04-22 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, William X. Walsh writes: > Give it up, Rhonda, the course won't be reversed Give it up, William, you have as much chance to get any measure of input into ICAN than your alter ego (Jeff the Man) or the cybercops. el

[IFWP] BOUNCE list@ifwp.org: Non-member submission from [Rex ]

1999-04-22 Thread Richard J. Sexton
>Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 15:18:51 -0400 (EDT) >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: BOUNCE [EMAIL PROTECTED]:Non-member submission from [Rex ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] > >>From cwix.com!rex.barnes Thu Apr 22 15:18:50 1999 >Return-Path: <[EMAI

[IFWP] Wired Article on NSI

1999-04-22 Thread Martin B. Schwimmer
WHO'S KING OF THE DOMAINS NOW? (BUS. Wednesday) http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/business/story/19246.h tml Will throwing open domain-name registration change the Net at all? Or are new domains, such as .store and .law, needed for real compe

Re: [IFWP] Re: Domain name censoring: registry or registrar?

1999-04-22 Thread William X. Walsh
Kumquats On Thu, 22 Apr 1999 11:44:03 +0100, Jeff Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >All, > > I wonder how exactly the ICANN or the DNSO expects to >exact any authority for doing this, and in particular in >any TLD name space that is not .com, .net, .org? In addition >in that a domain name i

Re: [IFWP] Role of Government in Internet development

1999-04-22 Thread William X. Walsh
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999 12:37:41 -0400 (EDT), Ronda Hauben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The research I am proposing will be to examine the role >played by government (especially the U.S. government, but if >possible other governments as well) in the development of the >Internet. And there will

Re: [IFWP] IBM, MCI, and the telcos invest in ICANN (no strings attached ;-| )

1999-04-22 Thread William X. Walsh
Kumquats On Thu, 22 Apr 1999 10:13:10 +0100, Jeff Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Esther and all, > > Well you and the ICANN Interim Board have some audacity to be making this >sort of statement!! Your own Accreditation Policy seeks to remove >any privacy that now exists. Hence I as do

[IFWP] Re: Domain name censoring: registry or registrar?

1999-04-22 Thread Jeff Williams
All, I wonder how exactly the ICANN or the DNSO expects to exact any authority for doing this, and in particular in any TLD name space that is not .com, .net, .org? In addition in that a domain name is now considered legal property, such a provision is not within the purview of ICANN either. H

[IFWP] Re: transfer domain to another registrar

1999-04-22 Thread Jeff Williams
Michael and all, Yes indeed we [INEGroup] reviewed the now Accreditation policy set by the ICANN Interim Board in great detail as well as had a legal review done. The conclusion's were posted to the ICANN relevant E-Mail depositories, and seemingly went unread or unheeded as they ICANN decided

[IFWP] Iperdome to Organize Netizens for Internet Governance

1999-04-22 Thread Jay Fenello
FYI: Iperdome to Organize Netizens for Internet Governance ATLANTA, April 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Iperdome, Inc., the company offering Personal Domain Name services under the .per(SM) name and Top Level Domain (TLD), has formed the Personal Domain Name Holders Association (http

RE: [IFWP] IBM, MCI, and the telcos invest in ICANN (no strings attached ;-| )

1999-04-22 Thread Marsh, Miles (Gene)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Esther, On this point I have to agree with you completely. The thought that an overseeing agency should be responsible for the integrity of data for disparate systems is contrary to both the nature of the Internet and good business practice. The EU

Re: [IFWP] IBM, MCI, and the telcos invest in ICANN (no strings attached ;-| )

1999-04-22 Thread Jeff Williams
Esther and all, Well you and the ICANN Interim Board have some audacity to be making this sort of statement!! Your own Accreditation Policy seeks to remove any privacy that now exists. Hence I as do many others, find your policy statements and posts such as this yet again disjointed and disin

[IFWP] Role of Government in Internet development

1999-04-22 Thread Ronda Hauben
The Role of Government in the Development of the Internet Paper Proposal by Ronda Hauben [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are many myths about the role that government has played in the development o

Re: [IFWP] RE: ICANN Names Competitive Domain-Name Registrars

1999-04-22 Thread Esther Dyson
A number of comments: This is one step, not the last or only step. In the scheme of things, services are starting to matter more than products. Competition in services is a worthy start. Esther Dyson At 11:19 AM 21/04/99 -0500, David Schutt wrote: >My goodness, a P.T. Barnum for the 21st Cent

Re: [IFWP] IBM, MCI, and the telcos invest in ICANN (no strings attached ;-| )

1999-04-22 Thread Esther Dyson
Please note that some people (me included) consider the EU data directive to be unnecessarily rigid and to represent government regulation in an area where individuals should be allowed to make their own choices. The US approach requires better citizen education than now exists, to be sure, but th

[IFWP] Announcement of New DNSO constituency for Individual DN owners

1999-04-22 Thread Joop Teernstra
21 April, 1999 Dear Ms. Schaffer van Houweling, We wish to form the following constituency in the DNSO: The Individual Domain Name Owners' constituency (IDNO), to be named the Cyberspace Association. Joining criteria: Owning a Domain Name as an individual and having sole control over it.