[IFWP] [Fwd: ICANN Names Fifteen New Post-Testbed Registrars]

1999-07-07 Thread Jeff Williams
All, For those that don't get the ICANN announcments, this might be interesting... 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 Address: 5 East

[IFWP] Re: Anti-cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act

1999-07-07 Thread Jeff Williams
Greg and all, Sorry for responding to this post so late. A better and more focused approach might be to address concerns to the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee. Their web site is located at, http://www.senate.gov/committees/committee_detail.cfm?COMMITTEE_ID=419 Links

Re: [IFWP] More detail on DNSO WG-A

1999-07-07 Thread Richard J. Sexton
http://www.dnso.org/wgroups/wg-a/Archives/msg6.html My God. That's the scariest thing I've ever seen. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] "They were of a mind to govern us and we were of a mind to govern ourselves."

Re: [IFWP] More detail on DNSO WG-A

1999-07-07 Thread Jeff Williams
Mikki and all, Yep, those were the parts that I found most disturbing, and extralegle to boot! VERY Scary indeed! :( Mikki Barry wrote: Oooh, just noticed part "f" 4. Revocation. We will suspend, revoke, transfer or otherwise modify Domain Name registrations in the following

Re: [IFWP] More detail on DNSO WG-A

1999-07-07 Thread Richard J. Sexton
I hate to say I told you so, but: http://www.open-rsc.org/inc/bylaws/ Last revised Oct 8/98 8:02 pm EST Commented version This is a separate proposal to the NTIA from ORSC. The significant differences between propsals submitted so far and ours are: 1.Membership

[IFWP] Re: ICANN Stealth appointment?

1999-07-07 Thread Gordon Cook
Brian writes: my vast expertise my wealth of experience Cook: Brian with phrases like the above you aren't exactly modest are you? Since ICANN reputedly is broke, please sate who is payiong your salary.. and BTW it is considered appropriate to use a subject line when announcing one's

[IFWP] suckered by jeff williams ...my apologies!!! Re: ICANN Stealthappointment?

1999-07-07 Thread Gordon Cook
d amn.. sorry to fall for williams bullshit. he has been in my filters for about 6 weeks and I had just about forgotten him The COOK Report on InternetIndex to seven years of the COOK Report 431 Greenway Ave,

[IFWP] Nameservice, Control, Cybersquatting, and Golem Domains

1999-07-07 Thread Rob Raisch
I believe there might be a way around the problems we currently face, and one that seems true to the "spirit" of the global Internet. Perhaps it is not exactly as I have outlined below, but I do believe there exists a solution based upon some of the ideas I present and would welcome discussion.

Re: [IFWP] suckered by jeff williams ...my apologies!!! Re: ICANN Stealth appointment?

1999-07-07 Thread Jeff Williams
Gordon and all, Wrong again. Suckered by William Walsh more than likely... Gordon Cook wrote: d amn.. sorry to fall for williams bullshit. he has been in my filters for about 6 weeks and I had just about forgotten him

[IFWP] Re: ICANN Stealth appointment?

1999-07-07 Thread Jeff Williams
Whomever this is and all, Unfortunately sir, you are a phony! The REAL Brian C. Hollingsworth cc'ed as a courtasy... Dr. Brian C. Hollingsworth wrote: I have been warned through several emails that there is a dedicated group of people whose sole goal in this process is one of disruption.

[IFWP] Like I said, this guy is a phoney to:[Fwd: Returned mail: Service unavailable]

1999-07-07 Thread Jeff Williams
All, FYI... -- Jeffrey A. Williams Spokesman INEGroup (Over 95k members strong!) 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 Address: 5 East Kirkwood Blvd. Grapevine Texas 75208

Re: [IFWP] More detail on DNSO WG-A

1999-07-07 Thread Martin B. Schwimmer
Why? At 08:18 AM 7/7/99 -0700, you wrote: 3. Your Representations. By applying to register for a Domain Name, or by asking us to administer or renew a Domain Name registration, you hereby represent to us that (a) the then-current statements that you made in your Registration Agreement

RE: [IFWP] Nameservice, Control, Cybersquatting, and Golem Domains

1999-07-07 Thread Gene Marsh
The standard Unix nameserver ("named") supports the serving of any TLD but relies on the entrenched administrative infrastructure (the rootservers) to "discover" the correct place to resolve a domain, and as we all know and love, this model focuses far too much power into machines controlled by a

[IFWP] Re: fun and games with Jeffy - [The William Walsh Saga seems to continue]

1999-07-07 Thread Jeff Williams
Meredith and all, Yes, sadly it does seem that there are folks that like to play games on mailing lists. The REAL Brian C. Hollingsworth has not doubt forwarded this on to the proper authorities by now. sigh> Meredith Tupper wrote:

Re: [IFWP] Re: fun and games with Jeffy - [The William Walsh Saga seems to continue]

1999-07-07 Thread William X. Walsh
Wasn't me, but it sure was a good laugh. On Wed, 07 Jul 1999 12:46:19 +0100, Jeff Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Meredith and all, Yes, sadly it does seem that there are folks that like to play games on mailing lists. The REAL Brian C. Hollingsworth has not doubt forwarded this on to

RE: [IFWP] Nameservice, Control, Cybersquatting, and Golem Domains

1999-07-07 Thread Rob Raisch
Gene Marsh writes: While root servers are, indeed, necessary for resolution, they do not have to be the current root servers. Additional / alternate root servers can certainly be used (and ARE being used) for new TLDs. Certainly. But without some sort of top-level coordination to guarantee

[IFWP] Re: [announce] Names Council teleconference, 12/07/1999, agenda

1999-07-07 Thread Jeff Williams
All, This looks like a pretty bad agenda to me. For those that have not reviewed it closely, here it is in detail. It seems that the "List Admin." doesn't want too many to know the actual URL, so I will provide both. I am quite sure that there will need to be some discussion on this lousy

[IFWP] Experimental Cross-Registrar WHOIS

1999-07-07 Thread Ben Edelman
Currently it seems that there is no single authoritative WHOIS. Rather, each registrar keeps its own data of its own registrants. This makes it difficult to figure out whether a domain is truly available for registration, so we've rigged up a search system to simultaneously query all operating

Re: [IFWP] Nameservice, Control, Cybersquatting, and Golem Domains

1999-07-07 Thread Jeff Williams
Rob and all, Rob, you make very many good points here, and they have been made many times before. However there are methods of solving every one of them currently. The problem with doing so on a large scale is that there would be a perceived "Split Root" claim by many if this was done.

Re: [IFWP] Experimental Cross-Registrar WHOIS

1999-07-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear Ben, Name.Space has adjusted its smart Whois (sWhois) to deal with the fragmented whois. Please see http://swhois.net It works and will automatically scale as new registrars come online. FYI, It took my engineer about 15 minutes to do what NSI should have done at their end to begin with!

[Special attention Ben Edelman] to:Re: [IFWP] Experimental Cross-Registrar WHOIS

1999-07-07 Thread Jeff Williams
Ben and all, Nice job Ben, seems to work pretty well and isn't all that slow as you seem to indicate. However you only check NSI and Register.com. Didn't you get the announcement on Melbourne IT yet? Ben Edelman wrote: Currently it seems that there is no single authoritative WHOIS.

Re: [IFWP] Experimental Cross-Registrar WHOIS

1999-07-07 Thread Jeff Williams
Paul and all, I agree with your conclusion here Paul. My (Browser Based WHOIS APP) took about 25 mins to build and takes only about 5 mins to update as new Registrars come online. Of course mine is all JAVA driven... >;) I also built a nice little JAVA Serverlett that does the same thing with

Re: [Special attention Ben Edelman] to:Re: [IFWP] Experimental Cross-Registrar WHOIS

1999-07-07 Thread William X. Walsh
So far they are only permitted registrations from their "partners." They are expected some time this week or next to open registrations to the public though. On Wed, 07 Jul 1999 14:19:18 +0100, Jeff Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben and all, Nice job Ben, seems to work pretty well and

Re: [Special attention Ben Edelman] to:Re: [IFWP] Experimental Cross-Registrar WHOIS

1999-07-07 Thread Jeff Williams
All, Intreating musing. This is not what their press release stated William X. Walsh wrote: So far they are only permitted registrations from their "partners." They are expected some time this week or next to open registrations to the public though. On Wed, 07 Jul 1999 14:19:18

Re: [Special attention Ben Edelman] to:Re: [IFWP] Experimental Cross-Registrar WHOIS

1999-07-07 Thread William X. Walsh
On Wed, 07 Jul 1999 14:48:18 +0100, Jeff Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, Intreating musing. This is not what their press release stated Perhaps you should read the news more often. I posted a story well over a week ago from news.com about them beginning to accept registrations,

Re: [IFWP] Re: Anti-cybersquatting (Trademark Owners) Protection Act

1999-07-07 Thread sthaug
A person can have hundreds of trademarks but only one domain ? Thats pretty silly Diane. That's your opinion, Richard and you are certainly entitled to it. Nonetheless, this silly method is used by some of the Scandinavian ccTLDs. hmm, and shall we discuss the customer approval ratings

Re: [IFWP] More detail on DNSO WG-A

1999-07-07 Thread Michael Sondow
Richard J. Sexton a écrit: http://www.dnso.org/wgroups/wg-a/Archives/msg6.html My God. That's the scariest thing I've ever seen. This sort of madness, where lawyers of AOL are deciding what the uniform dispute policy will be for millions of registrants who have absolutely nothing to do

Re: [Special attention Ben Edelman] to:Re: [IFWP] Experimental Cross-Registrar WHOIS

1999-07-07 Thread Jeff Williams
All, I would say that news.com's article that William posted needs a bit more research, as it does not jive with Melbourne IT's own announcement which I posted yesterday I believe. There is also another copy (Exact) of Melbourne IT's own announcement available at www.businesswire.com as

Re: [Special attention Ben Edelman] to:Re: [IFWP] Experimental Cross-Registrar WHOIS

1999-07-07 Thread William X. Walsh
On Wed, 07 Jul 1999 15:11:17 +0100, Jeff Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, I would say that news.com's article that William posted needs a bit more research, as it does not jive with Melbourne IT's own announcement which I posted yesterday I believe. There is also another copy (Exact)

Re: [Special attention Ben Edelman] to:Re: [IFWP] Experimental Cross-Registrar WHOIS

1999-07-07 Thread Jeff Williams
All, Again, poor william seems to have been confused, as is not surprising considering the "Source" of his information is rather inaccurate in context. To Wit from:

Re: [Special attention Ben Edelman] to:Re: [IFWP] Experimental Cross-Registrar WHOIS

1999-07-07 Thread William X. Walsh
On Wed, 07 Jul 1999 15:32:10 +0100, Jeff Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, Again, poor william seems to have been confused, as is not surprising considering the "Source" of his information is rather inaccurate in context. No, it isn't out of context Jeff, they began letting partners

[IFWP] Re: ICANN Stealth appointment

1999-07-07 Thread Michael Sondow
Gordon Cook wrote: Brian writes: I am pleased to announce that after meeting with Esther Dyson, Michael Roberts, and other members of the ICANN Initial Board of Directors, I have decided to accept their offer of the position of Director, Government Affairs and Policy. I hope to use my

Re: [IFWP] Re: ICANN Stealth appointment

1999-07-07 Thread Richard J. Sexton
I'm really glad Brian has finally entered the fray and hope to see more of this. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] "They were of a mind to govern us and we were of a mind to govern ourselves."

Re: [IFWP] Re: Anti-cybersquatting (Trademark Owners) Protection Act

1999-07-07 Thread William X. Walsh
On Thu, 08 Jul 1999 01:06:33 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having only one domain name per comany (plus some other restrictions) has worked rather well in Norway to prevent cybersquatting. Thats one way to do it - at the expense of personal freedoms. New Zealand has also eliminated

Re: [IFWP] Re: Mr. Hollingsworth

1999-07-07 Thread William X. Walsh
On Wed, 07 Jul 1999 16:37:34 +0100, Jeff Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael and all, It wasn't MY Joke Michael. I had NOTHING what so ever to do with it. It was likely WIlliam Walsh, as he has done this sort of thing before. No, Jeff, I never have done this kind of thing before.

[IFWP] ICANN running out of money

1999-07-07 Thread Patrick Greenwell
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,38847,00.html?st.ne.fd.gif.l P.S. I am maintaining links to recent news information at: http://stealthgeeks.net/background.html. /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Patrick GreenwellTelocity

Re: [IFWP] Re: Mr. Hollingsworth

1999-07-07 Thread Jeff Williams
Michael and all, It is likely that you did Michael. William does bare in attitude and action, this sort of resemblance Michael Sondow wrote: William X. Walsh a écrit: Hey Michael, I heard the x-files writers were going to be contacting you about concepts for future episodes.

Re: [IFWP] Re: Anti-cybersquatting (Trademark Owners) Protection Act

1999-07-07 Thread Jeff Williams
Kent and all, True the WORLD doesn't owe me or anyone a Domain name. But the USG DOES! I know because my tax dollars helped PAY for the DNS, the Internet as a whole and helps pay for the privilege for ICANN very existence Kent Crispin wrote: On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 06:58:05PM -0400,

Re: [IFWP] BOUNCE list@ifwp.org: Non-member submission from [Brian C. Hollingsworth Bholling@ix.netcom.com]

1999-07-07 Thread Jeff Williams
William and all, Nope! Just got routed that way I guess.. Shrug Otherwise I have no earthly idea... On second thought, it is possible I suppose he dialed through, though that is no longer necessary for Brian to do... William X. Walsh wrote: There Jeff, oops I mean Brian, goes again

Re: [IFWP] BOUNCE list@ifwp.org: Non-member submission from [Brian C. Hollingsworth Bholling@ix.netcom.com]

1999-07-07 Thread William X. Walsh
On Wed, 07 Jul 1999 17:58:29 +0100, Jeff Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: William and all, Nope! Just got routed that way I guess.. Shrug Otherwise I have no earthly idea... On second thought, it is possible I suppose he dialed through, though that is no longer necessary for Brian to

Re: [IFWP] ICANN running out of money - Deadbeats?

1999-07-07 Thread Jeff Williams
All, Well this is not surprising coming from this group. They are Deadbeats in more ways than one it seems. I guess old Mike (Captian Hook) Roberts just doesn't want to cough up some $$ from his own pocket, eh ya old sea dog swabbie you! My hart bleeds... I guess you could also say that

Re: [IFWP] BOUNCE list@ifwp.org: Admin request of type /\bcancel\b/i at line 2

1999-07-07 Thread Richard J. Sexton
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Re: [IFWP] Re: Anti-cybersquatting (Trademark Owners) Protection Act

1999-07-07 Thread Diane Cabell
A person can have hundreds of trademarks but only one domain ? Thats pretty silly Diane. That's your opinion, Richard and you are certainly entitled to it. Nonetheless, this silly method is used by some of the Scandinavian ccTLDs. hmm, and shall we discuss the customer approval

RE: [IFWP] Nameservice, Control, Cybersquatting, and Golem Domains

1999-07-07 Thread Gene Marsh
Rob, Now we reach the crux of where the discusions *should* be... how do we incorporate multiple "root" systems into the existing model? I (and many others) have no difficulty resolving new TLDs, because we have our systems pointing to other DNS servers for resolution. It is that simple from

Re: [IFWP] Re: Anti-cybersquatting (Trademark Owners) Protection Act

1999-07-07 Thread Richard J. Sexton
You'd have to poll them. I don't think you could impose it here; barn door and all that. The down side is that they didn't allow personal domain registrations, although I believe they are about to do so under a second level domain (? bing.per.no or something like that). If strictly enforced, it

[IFWP] Nader - Dyson Meeting today - Dyson to nader no time to readgreenwell letter

1999-07-07 Thread Gordon Cook
with jamie love's permission let me say that ralph handed Esther a copy of patrick greenwells letter. (presumably because he wanted to discuss it?) Esther to ralph: sorry I haven't found the time to read it. The COOK Report

Re: [IFWP] Re: Anti-cybersquatting (Trademark Owners) Protection Act

1999-07-07 Thread Jeff Williams
Diane and all, Though I can see your point regarding litigious concerns in the US vs NORWAY, I am still at a loss as to why the difference in policy should be viewed as better situation irrespective of Norway's solution ( 2nd level for personal DN registration) really making the that much