Re: [IFWP] Re: [IDNO:321] a democracy can defend itself

1999-06-14 Thread William X. Walsh
I see once again you have violated the list etiquette about cross posting to/from the IDNS list. I've solved that in my reply. In any event, Mr Crispin, I have asked you repeatedly, and I will ask you again on this forum. You have made comments opposing the goals and principles that are the

Re: [IFWP] FYI

1999-06-14 Thread Jeff Williams
Richard, Ron and all, Yes Ron, you seem the have noticed the lack of consistency and total lack of oversight of the ICANN in this "Experiment" of the introduction of Registrar competition as well. It actually is allot worse than your notice (See below). We[INEGroup] have four folks tracking

[IFWP] Re: Overly concerned about List(s) etiquette

1999-06-14 Thread Jeff Williams
William and all, Need I again remind you that the "Rules" to which you refer to for the IDNO mailing list are not posted on the IDNO site. As such it is difficult to justify enforcing any such rules in any proper manner. Hence, you only provide more sauce for the goose, so to speak, for Kent

Re: [IFWP] FYI

1999-06-14 Thread Ellen Rony
Someone wrote: SO HOW COULD SOMEONE REGISTER TITS.COM AT REGISTER.COM WHEN THEY BLOCK REGISTRATION *REQUESTS* FOR SUCH DOMAINS!?? Just to be sure that the TITS.COM and similar are still blocked, I tried registering various profane domains at both NSI webpage and via NSI registration template

Re: [IFWP] FYI Another related interesting note...

1999-06-14 Thread Jeff Williams
Richard, Ron and all, Another interesting observation on this post as well. I noticed the TITTIES.COM is an active domain... There is even a "Free" area as well! ;) Shocking, just shocking! I guess the relative filters didn't work in this instance, eh? This sort of thing kinda gets

Re: [IFWP] FYI

1999-06-14 Thread Jeff Williams
Ellen, Ron and all, Yes this was discussed on the DOmain Policy list even before April. The point is that to do so is foolish on ICANN's and any registrar to do as it is in most countries including the US an established violation of freedom of expression. This will only lead to eventual

[IFWP] Re: [discuss] Re: [IDNO:321] a democracy can defend itself

1999-06-14 Thread Joop Teernstra
At 22:07 13/06/1999 -0700, Kent Crispin wrote: There is no information concerning what is meant by "civil discourse", nor is there any indication of where I might find out anything about it. Among civilised people there is not much need to spell out what civil discourse is. It gets noted when

RE: [IFWP] FYI

1999-06-14 Thread Anonymous
Ellen, You wrote: The answer is simple. NSI, the registrar, has a different policy as regards "offensive" words (although I'm not certain this word fits that description) than does register.com. NSI officials confirmed to me late in April that this might occur in the Shared Registry

[IFWP] Missing archives?

1999-06-14 Thread Jeff Williams
All, I have noticed that there have not been quite a number of posts to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the archives. Is there some reason for this? Please advise. Regards, -- Jeffrey A. Williams CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng. Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC.

[IFWP] BOUNCE list@ifwp.org: Non-member submission from [Kevin J. Connolly CONNOLLK@rspab.com]

1999-06-14 Thread Anonymous
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[IFWP] Sender: owner-list@ifwp.org

1999-06-14 Thread Richard J. Sexton
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[IFWP] CNN: Whose Domain Is It Anyway Nader, NSI Want To Know

1999-06-14 Thread Michael Sondow
http://cnnfn.com/news/technology/newsbytes/131907.html

[IFWP] CNET News.com - Ralph Nader takes ICANN to task

1999-06-14 Thread Michael Sondow
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,37730,00.html?st.ne.fd.mdh.ni

[IFWP] Re: [discuss] Re: [IDNO:321] a democracy can defend itself

1999-06-14 Thread Michael Sondow
Kent Crispin wrote: On Mon, Jun 14, 1999 at 01:26:36PM +1200, Joop Teernstra wrote: Dear members, In case anyone needs more convincing of the hostile intent of our "guests" from the registrar constituency, please note that Mr Crispin posted my entire message to the dnso list, from

Re: [IFWP] Sender: owner-list@ifwp.org

1999-06-14 Thread Jeff Williams
Ron, Have you stated this concern to the ICANN or the DNSO PNC to date? This would be a good place to start if you wish those concerns to be addressed. You might also let a some media folks know as well. Maybe they will pick up on this and see a potential byline for a story here... Richard

Re: [IFWP] RE: Next Names Council Meeting

1999-06-14 Thread Michael Sondow
Karl Auerbach a écrit: In any case, there will be a Names Council meeting on June 25 in San Jose. I will be present. I will be admitted. I will participate according to the rights and privileges granted to me under the Bylaws of ICANN and the laws of the State of California. Don't

[IFWP] Self-restraint as Self-governance: was a democracy can defend itself

1999-06-14 Thread Martin B. Schwimmer
Take it from one who knows, Joop, and avoid Kent Crispin by whatever means available, including removing him from the list and/or ignoring his postings. He is a person with no morals, none whatsoever, and there is nothing he won't stoop to to disrupt and manipulate others, as was proved for all

Re: [IFWP] FYI Another related interesting note...

1999-06-14 Thread Jeff Williams
Ron and all, No I understood you concern very clearly, hence my response to it as I share your concern. It appears however that this concern, along with several others that have sense been reported regarding Register.com are going unheaded, or are not considered serious enough to act upon by

Re: [IFWP] Re: PASS THE SICK BAG!

1999-06-14 Thread Michael Sondow
Esther Dyson a écrit: Jay - What made you stop consulting for NSI? What made you start doing publicity for IBM?

Re: [IFWP] CNET News.com - Ralph Nader takes ICANN to task

1999-06-14 Thread Jeff Williams
All, I wonder when or if Esther Dyson will respond to Ralph... I hope that CNet follows this up. Michael Sondow wrote: http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,37730,00.html?st.ne.fd.mdh.ni Regards, -- Jeffrey A. Williams CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng. Information

Re: [IFWP] Self-restraint as Self-governance: was a democracy candefend itself

1999-06-14 Thread Gordon Cook
Dear Marty Take a hike. Take it from one who knows, Joop, and avoid Kent Crispin by whatever means available, including removing him from the list and/or ignoring his postings. He is a person with no morals, none whatsoever, and there is nothing he won't stoop to to disrupt and manipulate

[IFWP] Dyson/IBM

1999-06-14 Thread Michael Sondow
Ms. Dyson- Are you, the chairperson of ICANN, exchanging publicity with IBM? That is, do you do publicity for them, and in exchange they do it for you? Or is there money, too, involved? Was it Roger Cochetti who set it up? Is Beckwith Burr aware of what is going on? Is that what she was

Re: [IFWP] Self-restraint as Self-governance: was a democracy can defend itself

1999-06-14 Thread William X. Walsh
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999 16:21:09 -0400, Gordon Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Marty Take a hike. Oh yes, thats a good response, Gordon. Very telling. Take it from one who knows, Joop, and avoid Kent Crispin by whatever means available, including removing him from the list and/or

Re: [IFWP] IBM and Esther Dyson making e-commerce safe for the fortune 500

1999-06-14 Thread Martin B. Schwimmer
Relevance? At 10:27 AM 6/14/99 -0400, you wrote: http://www.ibm.com/thinkmag/excerpts/release/main.html and http://www.ibm.com/iac/transcripts/internet-privacy-symp/estherdyson.html

Re: [IFWP] I beg your pardon ?

1999-06-14 Thread Esther Dyson
I thought it was a question of general interest, as (I hoped) were my own financial interests when I posted them some time ago. Esther At 01:48 AM 14/06/99 -0400, Richard J. Sexton wrote: Esther did you mean to send that out to a couple of public mailing lists or was that a late night slip of

Re: [IFWP] Dyson/IBM

1999-06-14 Thread Jeff Williams
Michael and all, I think that we already know the answers to these questions. The proof is in the putting as the say >;) Or one could also say that preception is 90% of reality... It appears to me that Esther Dyson is sort of the Monica Lewinski of the GIP (www.gip.org). Can we all say

Re: [IFWP] IBM and Esther Dyson making e-commerce safe for the fortune 500

1999-06-14 Thread Jeff Williams
Martin and all, Obvious of course. Can You say S-U-C-K-I-N-G U-P, Martin? Martin B. Schwimmer wrote: Relevance? At 10:27 AM 6/14/99 -0400, you wrote: >http://www.ibm.com/thinkmag/excerpts/release/main.html > > and > >http://www.ibm.com/iac/transcripts/internet-privacy-symp/estherdyson.html >

[IFWP] Putting a price on our Internet Identities

1999-06-14 Thread Anonymous
Callaw has an interesting article today at : http://www.callaw.com/stories/edt0614f.html It reports basically that EFF is trying to put a "price" on the value of our "identity" so that damages can be ascertained should a company violate our privacy rights. (Before you jump in Jeffeypoo, I'm

[IFWP] Re: kmm052 Next Meetings

1999-06-14 Thread Kerry Miller
Jeff, I trust the contrast to conventional rant is clear. One does not start with the grounds and somehow try to 'convince' by browbeating or bullshit or specious argument that 'therefore' someone else 'must' agree. Agreed, one must look at the relevant facts in evidence past and

[IFWP] Re: Next Meetings

1999-06-14 Thread Kerry Miller
Joop, If someone breaks the rules, he is dealt with according to other rules, not the whim of an autocratic listowner. It's called: the rule of Law. We are here at a stage where we have very few rules to start with. You may wish for the happy day when we have lots and lots of rules to

Re: [IFWP] Self-restraint as Self-governance: was a democracy can defend itself

1999-06-14 Thread Michael Sondow
Martin B. Schwimmer a écrit: Take it from one who knows, Joop, and avoid Kent Crispin by whatever means available, including removing him from the list and/or ignoring his postings. He is a person with no morals, none whatsoever, and there is nothing he won't stoop to to disrupt and

Re: [IFWP] Self-restraint as Self-governance: was a democracy can defend itself

1999-06-14 Thread William X. Walsh
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999 19:33:47 -0400, Michael Sondow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would Mr. Cook and Mr. Steinberg care to condemn this type of rhetoric or is this further proof that the writer of the previous post has grown as a person in the past six months and is now fit to represent

[IFWP] Literature for $20

1999-06-14 Thread Martin B. Schwimmer
Who here has read the novel "Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole (Pulitzer Prize winner in the early '80's)?

Re: [IFWP] I beg your pardon ?

1999-06-14 Thread Jeff Williams
Esther and all, First lets dispense with the begging, shall we Esther. Good. ;) Second I fail to see why Jay's no longer consulting for NSI has any barring on anything, especially as he has made it plainly clear as to what his "Consulting" was all about on several occasions. Third, as has

RE: [IFWP] Re: kmm052 Next Meetings

1999-06-14 Thread John B. Reynolds
Kerry Miller wrote; Jeff, I trust the contrast to conventional rant is clear. One does not start with the grounds and somehow try to 'convince' by browbeating or bullshit or specious argument that 'therefore' someone else 'must' agree. Agreed, one must look at the

Re: [IFWP] Re: PASS THE SICK BAG!

1999-06-14 Thread Jeff Williams
Esther and all, Esther Dyson wrote: It was a one-time deal, and it was a lot of fun. (I got my own trailer.) FWIW, it was organized by an old friend of mine at Ogilvy Mather, who did the Mac 1984 commercial and now works on the IBM account (!), rather than with IBM directly. Well this is in

Re: [IFWP] I beg your pardon ?

1999-06-14 Thread Anonymous
Maybe for sombody in New York :-), but I thought it was a little nosy and entirely inappropriate. I'd feel that way if it were CORE or ISOC and not NSI. YMMV. At 05:58 PM 6/14/99 -0400, you wrote: I thought it was a question of general interest, as (I hoped) were my own financial interests when

Re: [IFWP] Literature for $20 - similarities to ICANN, ect...???

1999-06-14 Thread Anonymous
Martin and all, Yes I read it. Good and funny book in many ways. Now that I think on it a bit I see some amazing similarities to the theme and Title of this book to ICANN/ISOC/gTLD-MoU/DNSO/WIPO/ITU and in particular to the ICANN (initial?) Interim board. Martin B. Schwimmer wrote: Who

Re: [IFWP] Re: PASS THE SICK BAG!

1999-06-14 Thread Anonymous
It was a one-time deal, and it was a lot of fun. (I got my own trailer.) FWIW, it was organized by an old friend of mine at Ogilvy Mather, who did the Mac 1984 commercial and now works on the IBM account (!), rather than with IBM directly. But Gordon, please check your facts: it was hockey,

Re: [IFWP] Re: kmm052 Next Meetings

1999-06-14 Thread Jeff Williams
John and all, Ah, yes you are of course correct John. I stand corrected. I guess I was thinking of "We the people". My mistake. John B. Reynolds wrote: Kerry Miller wrote; Jeff, I trust the contrast to conventional rant is clear. One does not start with the grounds and

[IFWP] Long just published article on ICANN now available on my web sitein its entirety

1999-06-14 Thread Gordon Cook
http://cookreport/icannregulate.shtml The COOK Report on InternetIndex to seven years of the COOK Report 431 Greenway Ave, Ewing, NJ 08618 USA Exec summaries, glossary etc (609) 882-2572 (phone fax)

Re: [IFWP] Putting a price on our Internet Identities

1999-06-14 Thread Jeff Williams
William and all, William X. Walsh wrote: Callaw has an interesting article today at : http://www.callaw.com/stories/edt0614f.html It reports basically that EFF is trying to put a "price" on the value of our "identity" so that damages can be ascertained should a company violate our

Re: [IFWP] Is that a tinfoil hat you're wearing, Dave ?

1999-06-14 Thread Dave Crocker
At 10:39 PM 6/13/99 -0400, Richard J. Sexton wrote: Jolly good, but I did ask what it was spent on, as oppose to was it Indeed, you did ask that. It was curious that a pointed question about individual financial affiliation with a large commercial monopoly that is trying to sway this process

Re: [IFWP] Re: PASS THE SICK BAG!

1999-06-14 Thread Dave Crocker
At 06:25 PM 6/13/99 -0400, Jay Fenello wrote: you seem to be implying that I am no longer an independent voice. Nothing could be further from the truth. Even when I was consulting for NSI (which ended with the Berlin meeting), I was not paid to be a "NSI Supporter." My role was to give NSI my

[IFWP] Re: [discuss] PASS THE SICK BAG!

1999-06-14 Thread Anonymous
Antony, The following annotations form a very different sense of the history you cite: At 04:16 PM 6/13/99 -0400, Antony Van Couvering wrote: *The POC was a closed shop, a black box, unreadable and unknowable from the outside, intransigent against efforts to open it up and see the

Re: [IFWP] Re: [discuss] Re: [IDNO:321] a democracy can defend itself

1999-06-14 Thread Dave Crocker
At 11:34 PM 6/14/99 +1200, Joop Teernstra wrote: Among civilised people there is not much need to spell out what civil discourse is. It gets noted when it is absent. That view works well only in some very homogeneous environments. Only some. What is considered civil discourse varies greatly

Re: [IFWP] Re: PASS THE SICK BAG!

1999-06-14 Thread William X. Walsh
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999 17:04:07 -0700, Dave Crocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 06:25 PM 6/13/99 -0400, Jay Fenello wrote: you seem to be implying that I am no longer an independent voice. Nothing could be further from the truth. Even when I was consulting for NSI (which ended with the Berlin

[IFWP] BOUNCE list@ifwp.org: Non-member submission from [rb1000@ix.netcom.com (Ron Bennett)]

1999-06-14 Thread Anonymous
Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 22:30:44 -0400 (EDT) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: BOUNCE [EMAIL PROTECTED]:Non-member submission from [[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ron Bennett)] From ix.netcom.com!rb1000 Mon Jun 14 22:30:43 1999 Return-Path: [EMAIL

Re: [IFWP] I beg your pardon ?

1999-06-14 Thread Jay Fenello
At 05:58 PM 6/14/99 , Esther Dyson wrote: I thought it was a question of general interest, as (I hoped) were my own financial interests when I posted them some time ago. Esther At 01:48 AM 14/06/99 -0400, Richard J. Sexton wrote: Esther did you mean to send that out to a couple of public

Re: [IFWP] Re: [discuss] PASS THE SICK BAG!

1999-06-14 Thread Anonymous
Since I was on the IAHC d/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Dave Crocker Tel: +1 408 246 8253 Ah yes. I'd always wondered about that so I asked Postel in Geneva. Me: Jon, what were you thnking of puting Metzger

Re: [IFWP] Is that a tinfoil hat you're wearing, Dave ?

1999-06-14 Thread Richard J. Sexton
In any event, it remains interesting It must be wonderful to have that child like innocense such that everything is "amazing", "interesting", "fascinating" and so forth. Thanks for your non-response. Back to the killfile. *plonk*. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] Remember, amateurs

[IFWP] Re: [discuss] Re: Whose Domain Is It Anyway? Nader, NSI Want To Know

1999-06-14 Thread Milton Mueller
Kent: I was in Berlin. You were not. The two or three speakers who spoke out against NSI having additional seats were all CORE members. The session is on record, by the way. It should be noted that all of the Names Council seats from the registry constituency are from CORE. CORE and NSI are two

Re: [IFWP] Re: [discuss] Re: Whose Domain Is It Anyway? Nader, NSI Want To Know

1999-06-14 Thread William X. Walsh
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999 00:53:42 -0400, Milton Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kent: I was in Berlin. You were not. The two or three speakers who spoke out against NSI having additional seats were all CORE members. The session is on record, by the way. Of course it was Milton. In Kent's mind CORE

RE: [IFWP] BOUNCE list@ifwp.org: Non-member submission from [rb1000@ix.netcom.com (Ron Bennett)]

1999-06-14 Thread John B. Reynolds
The problem you describe below is a consequence of NSI's 'thin registry' model, under which each registrar runs its own whois. It was not created by ICANN. ICANN's Registrar Accreditation Agreement contains a provision (Section III.D.4) intended to facilitate its solution by requiring all

Re: [IFWP] Re: [discuss] Re: Whose Domain Is It Anyway? Nader, NSI Want To Know

1999-06-14 Thread Jeff Williams
Milton and all, Milton Mueller wrote: Kent: I was in Berlin. You were not. The two or three speakers who spoke out against NSI having additional seats were all CORE members. The session is on record, by the way. Milton is correct here. Kent has a long history of exagorating or streching

[IFWP] Re: [discuss] Re: Whose Domain Is It Anyway? Nader, NSI Want To Know

1999-06-14 Thread Kent Crispin
On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 12:53:42AM -0400, Milton Mueller wrote: Kent: I was in Berlin. You were not. On the other hand, I was watching the open board meeting on the real video feed while you were off contending over the NCC. That is, I certainly saw things that you did not, even though I