[IFWP] Re: NSI a possible candidate for RBL (Blackhole blcoking)

1999-07-31 Thread Jeff Williams
Mark and all, Well this seems like something somebody that is a bit to tightly wrapped would dream of doing and might just carry out... Sick! Mark Jeftovic wrote: > All those advert emails NSI has been sending to domain holders just might get > them blackholed: > > ---begin copy > > To: [EM

Re: [IFWP] Re: [IDNO-DISCUSS] A new "Self Reglatory" group might join hands with ICANN???

1999-07-31 Thread Jeff Williams
Joop and all, Joop Teernstra wrote: > > > > FYI: http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,0-39935,00.html?st.ne.140.head > > > >Very interesting. A change in ICANN strategy with respect to > >Liability perhaps > > > This has nothing to do with ICANN and everything with trying to exploit a > priva

[IFWP] Re: [IDNO-DISCUSS] A new "Self Reglatory" group might join hands with ICANN???

1999-07-31 Thread Joop Teernstra
> > FYI: http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,0-39935,00.html?st.ne.140.head > >Very interesting. A change in ICANN strategy with respect to >Liability perhaps > This has nothing to do with ICANN and everything with trying to exploit a privately owned substitute for an open DNS. Centraal and R

Re: [IFWP] Vixie to RBL NSI?

1999-07-31 Thread William X. Walsh
Saturday, July 31, 1999, 9:21:43 AM, Mark C. Langston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Apparently Paul Vixie sent mail to a mailing list of RBL subscribers and > interested 3rd parties, is seriously considering blackholing NSI for > spamming its customer base. > I don't want to get into whether the

Re: [IFWP] European Commission to investigate NSI

1999-07-31 Thread A.M. Rutkowski
>So you say that the EC has protectionist motivations in investigating NSI, >and at the same time you acknowledge that there is no-one to protect. Werner, These are two entirely different topics. The term "protectionist" is synonymous with strategic industrial policy and preservation of domest

[IFWP] "When we are asked direct questions we answer them." - E. Dyson.

1999-07-31 Thread Richard J. Sexton
28 days and counting... >Esther, Mike, Joe, > >Is there any particular ICANN view on efforts to set up alternative root >systems? I'd figured that ICANN would be neutral on it--it's got a mandate >to (eventually, if all proceeds a particular way) maintain and manage the >contents of the legac

Re: [IFWP] European Commission to investigate NSI

1999-07-31 Thread Werner Staub
Tony, > >But could you clarify *whom* the EC tries to protect by investigating > >NSI, in your opinion? > You're asking the same question that I am! So you say that the EC has protectionist motivations in investigating NSI, and at the same time you acknowledge that there is no-one to protect.

Re: [IFWP] European Commission to investigate NSI [Attention Mark Measday and Joe sims]

1999-07-31 Thread Jeff Williams
Jim and all, Very well rebuffed here Jim, and on target as well. >;) As you may well know, one of the circumstances surrounding the SIngapore ICANN conference (A fiasco BTW), was that ICANN's reported dealings with the than EC of which Mr. Bangemann was a member, before forced to resign as

Re: [IFWP] European Commission to investigate NSI [Attention Mark Measday]

1999-07-31 Thread Jeff Williams
Mark and all, most especially Mark, Thank you, Sir Mark, it likewise always to receive a post from you as well, even though it is of a sarcastic tone. >;) Now for the rest of your post... (See below your comments) Mark Measday wrote: > Always a pleasure to receive a post from you, Sir Je

Re: [IFWP] Vixie to RBL NSI?

1999-07-31 Thread Michael Sondow
Richard J. Sexton a écrit: > > He blackholed Real Audio, too. This is the man who claims that "accuracy and reliability matter to us. content and policy does not". Michael Sondow I.C.I.I.U. http://www.iciiu.org Tel. (2

Re: [IFWP] Vixie to RBL NSI?

1999-07-31 Thread Michael Sondow
A.M. Rutkowski wrote: > > The liability here is significant and goes well > beyond Vixie to include any ISP using the RBL service. > The potential consequential damages are pretty > dramatic, and the preponderance of the business > community will go ape if they know one person can > shut off thei

Re: [IFWP] Vixie to RBL NSI?

1999-07-31 Thread Richard J. Sexton
Lessee if I get this right. Kashpureff made a voluntary service - DNS take internic off the map, so he went to jail. Vixie made a volunatry service take internic off the map and thats ok. Do I understand correctly? -- Richard Sexton | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://dns.vrx.net/tech/rootzone http:

Re: [IFWP] Vixie to RBL NSI?

1999-07-31 Thread Jeff Williams
All, He also blackholed Mindspring for a short time through an NZ company http://www.orbs.org, that has contracted to the ITU, BTW... I have all the relevant documentation on that incident myself... Richard J. Sexton wrote: > He blackholed Real Audio, too. > > Go Paul, go. > > At 09:21 AM 7/

Re: [IFWP] Vixie to RBL NSI?

1999-07-31 Thread Karl Auerbach
> Ah, the dark side of private self-governance. Since the Internet can't be > controlled by anyone, how could one person possibly have such power? Paul Vixie and RBL don't hold that kind of power. What Vixie does is offer me a service, to which I subscribe, that allows me to filter out sources

Re: [IFWP] European Commission to investigate NSI

1999-07-31 Thread Jim Dixon
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Mark Measday wrote: > Odd, given your arguments, that, with the good advice Mr B received at the EC, > we do not see him at the helm of some more adventurous venture. Good advice? From who? Mr Bangemann headed up DG XIII, the telecommunications directorate. He was of co

Re: [IFWP] Vixie to RBL NSI?

1999-07-31 Thread A.M. Rutkowski
At 01:41 PM 7/31/99 , you wrote: >for RBL. If there are, then the enormous influence of RBL and its impact on >interconnectivity and therefore freedom of speech can simply be ignored. >There are lots of substitutes for RBL, aren't there? Right now, it's effectively a monopoly, like BIND. :-) Do

Re: [IFWP] Vixie to RBL NSI?

1999-07-31 Thread Craig McTaggart
A.M. Rutkowski wrote: > The potential consequential damages are pretty > dramatic, and the preponderance of the business > community will go ape if they know one person can > shut off their customer communications. Ah, the dark side of private self-governance. Since the Internet can't be cont

Re: [IFWP] European Commission to investigate NSI

1999-07-31 Thread Mark Measday
Always a pleasure to receive a post from you, Sir Jeff, and I thank you for the unmerited comparison with the eminent Mr Crocker, whose tersity I have unfortunately yet to emulate. In fact I was trying to get Mr Dixon to put some more of his cogent prose online, while also trying to point out tha

Re: [IFWP] Analogical thought

1999-07-31 Thread Mark Measday
Exactly. But there is nothing other than those vicarious personal conceptualizations, even if most of them are provably wrong given enough time and resources. Given the available level of those factors, what pragmatic solutions would one find? Greg Skinner's acceptance of differences as a fact of

Re: [IFWP] Vixie to RBL NSI?

1999-07-31 Thread Richard J. Sexton
He blackholed Real Audio, too. Go Paul, go. At 09:21 AM 7/31/99 -0700, you wrote: >Apparently Paul Vixie sent mail to a mailing list of RBL subscribers and >interested 3rd parties, is seriously considering blackholing NSI for >spamming its customer base. -- Richard Sexton | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [IFWP] Vixie to RBL NSI?

1999-07-31 Thread A.M. Rutkowski
Mark, Paul does a commendable job maintaining the RBL service. What is his rationale for such an extreme position - a complaint by a competitor? The liability here is significant and goes well beyond Vixie to include any ISP using the RBL service. The potential consequential damages are pretty d

RE: [IFWP] Re: Suggestions Requested: Real-Time Chat Software or Sites

1999-07-31 Thread Rob Raisch
Kerry Miller replied: > For instance, you [Richard ] wrote, > > IRC is a very very hostile place...> > and I absolutely agree. Please. IRC is not a place; it is a communications protocol with both clients and servers that can communicate using it. If the suggestion is to open board meeting

[IFWP] Vixie to RBL NSI?

1999-07-31 Thread Mark C. Langston
Apparently Paul Vixie sent mail to a mailing list of RBL subscribers and interested 3rd parties, is seriously considering blackholing NSI for spamming its customer base. I don't want to get into whether the RBL is a good or bad thing. I've used and recommended it in the past, and I understand Pa

[IFWP] Y2K and the Internet - Part 2: The U.S.

1999-07-31 Thread Michael Sondow
Y2K and the Internet - Part 2: The U.S. >From an interview on July 23rd, 1999, with Mr. Solomon Sampson, a member of the ratings committee of Standard & Poors, Inc., the foremost service which rates the credit-worthiness of the bonds and other debt of U.S. corporations and state and municipal gov

Re: [IFWP] European Commission to investigate NSI

1999-07-31 Thread A.M. Rutkowski
At 01:58 PM 7/30/99 , you wrote: >gTLD market share is at least 30% in those European countries >where prices are comparable to those of NSI. We'll see when Mark Lottor's new host/domain counts come out. Actual COM, NET, and ORG use has not been anywhere near that figure in any European country.

Re: [IFWP] Re: Suggestions Requested: Real-Time Chat Software or Sites

1999-07-31 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 08:52 AM 7/31/99 +, you wrote: > > >Richard wrote, tho Im really responding to Ben and the >Berkmanites: >> I've been trying to emulate the f2f group/association meting >> in cyberspace for about 15 years. What I notice is, the physical >> presence is vitally important. When people are di

[IFWP] Bliley re DotcomDir

1999-07-31 Thread Kerry Miller
http://com- notes.house.gov/cchear/hearings106.nsf/eeae8466ba03a215852567 7f004b4d11/bcf8be32bd730c4f852567bd00735a56?OpenDocument Dear Mr. Rutt: I am writing to learn more about actions by Network Solutions Incorporated ("NSI") to introduce a new Internet directory. This new directory -- cal

[IFWP] Re: Suggestions Requested: Real-Time Chat Software or Sites

1999-07-31 Thread Kerry Miller
Richard wrote, tho Im really responding to Ben and the Berkmanites: > I've been trying to emulate the f2f group/association meting > in cyberspace for about 15 years. What I notice is, the physical > presence is vitally important. When people are disconnected > from that they say awful things