Re: [IFWP] Conspiracy theories.

1999-08-27 Thread Planet Communications Computing Facility
Kent: Stop batting at the fictional ferries floating bout your head. Your getting close to the point of libel. Do you have money? On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Kent Crispin wrote: On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 10:52:44PM -0400, Richard J. Sexton wrote: Guilty as charged, Kent. I do DNS for a lot of

Re: [IFWP] Conspiracy theories.

1999-08-27 Thread Michael Sondow
Kent Crispin wrote: It is the evidence of pervasive deception: fake businesses, fake organizations, fake email addresses, fake names, fake people. You mean like Javier Sola's "European Internet Business Association"? Or like CORE itself, incorporated illegally in Switzerland and guilty of

[IFWP] Re: proposal [Attention M. Pappas and Chuck Gomes]

1999-08-27 Thread Jeff Williams
John, Matthew and all, John provides good advise, as far as it goes. He would rather hear the same message over and over again that is total agreement with his myopic views. That is fine, but it isn't reality. Yes I often disagree with John, as I do others. That is what debate and real

[IFWP] Will you ever have a vote?

1999-08-27 Thread Eric Weisberg
Andrew McLaughlin wrote: The ICANN Board of Directors held its third quarterly meeting in Santiago, Chile, today. The Board passed a number of resolutions, including the following: ... - Implementation of At Large Membership "Implementation" is an interesting descriptor for what was

Re: [IFWP] Will you ever have a vote?

1999-08-27 Thread A.M. Rutkowski
Hi Eric, I understand that voting will only occur when 5,000 people sign up for membership. A small fraction of that number have The whole scheme was concocted to allow ICANN board and staff to control the election of their replacements and, more importantly, to reduce any means of

Re: [IFWP] Will you ever have a vote?

1999-08-27 Thread Ellen Rony
Hi, Eric-- I left your full posting in this message, because it certainly bears repeating. What you have missed, to make matters worse, is that the At Large membership won't even be able to hold direct elections. Instead, it will be voting for 18 members of an At Large Council who will SELECT

[IFWP] [WASHINGTON-UPDATE] GAO REPORT FINDS NO OVERLAP OF FEDERAL IT PROGRAMS (fwd)

1999-08-27 Thread Planet Communications Computing Facility
EDUCAUSE WASHINGTON UPDATE --- AUGUST 27, 1999 DNS PRIVATIZATION: ICANN APPROVES COMPROMISE WITH DOMAIN NAME DISPUTE RESOLUTION PLAN AS HOUSE COMMERCE COMMITTEE CHAIR INITIATES INVESTIGATION OF FUNDRAISING ACTIVITIES DNS PRIVATIZATION ICANN APPROVES COMPROMISE WITH DOMAIN NAME DISPUTE

[IFWP] BOUNCE list@ifwp.org: Non-member submission from [kerryo@ns.sympatico.ca (Kerry Miller)]

1999-08-27 Thread Richard J. Sexton
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Re: [IFWP] [WASHINGTON-UPDATE] GAO REPORT FINDS NO OVERLAP OF FEDERAL IT PROGRAMS (fwd)

1999-08-27 Thread Richard J. Sexton
The ICANN board also agreed to "provisionally" recognize the Non-commercial Domain Name Holders constituency of the Domain Name Supporting Organization until the board's meeting this November. A petition to create another group representing individuals' policy interests was rejected by the board

Re: [IFWP] Will you ever have a vote?

1999-08-27 Thread Jeff Williams
Eric and all, No, you said it all here Eric. This whole thing is a travesty is about all I can add... :( But I have been expecting something like this from this ICANN (Initial?) Interim board. It is just simply another example of a direct attempt to thwart the White Paper... Eric Weisberg

Re: [IFWP] Will you ever have a vote? - ICANN out of control again?

1999-08-27 Thread Jeff Williams
Tony and all, Indeed this whole "Procedure" does indeed look like some sort of concoction that Jones Day and Joe Sims would come up with. I only hope that the House Commerce Commission will take a close look into this situation... A.M. Rutkowski wrote: Hi Eric, I understand that voting will

[IFWP] My nose

1999-08-27 Thread Bill Lovell
My nose insists upon telling me that I smell something putrid. This malady started when on internet.com I first read "ICANN Adopts Cyber-Squatting Policy" and then "ICANN gets Financial Boost." Is that not what many of us have been concerned about for years now, that ICANN was for sale by the

Re: [IFWP] My nose

1999-08-27 Thread Jeff Williams
Bill and all, Good points Bill. I just wonder how long this ICANN circus act is going to be allowed to continue in this manner Bill Lovell wrote: My nose insists upon telling me that I smell something putrid. This malady started when on internet.com I first read "ICANN Adopts