[IFWP] Not taken for granite

2000-04-07 Thread Ellen Rony
http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,13205,00.html March 27, 2000 Throwing Rocks at ICANN, by Keith Perine Esther Dyson and the board of ICANN can't seem to manage the business of administering Net domain names without creating controversy at every turn.

Re: [IFWP] Re: ICANN/DNSO (fwd)

2000-04-07 Thread Jeff Williams
Joe and all, Yes I posted them to the DNSO GA list for informational purposes as Mo, was having a problem in getting on the DNSO GA list for some odd reason. And yes, it seems that WXW forgot to take his prozack again :( !Dr. Joe Baptista wrote: Well - those censored messages are now

Re: [IFWP] Re: ICANN/DNSO (fwd)

2000-04-07 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Jeff Williams wrote: Joe and all, Yes I posted them to the DNSO GA list for informational purposes as Mo, was having a problem in getting on the DNSO GA list for some odd reason. And yes, it seems that WXW forgot to take his prozack again :( I know. He's so

Re: [IFWP] Not taken for granite

2000-04-07 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 11:16 PM 4/6/00 -0700, you wrote: http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,13205,00.html I don't get this article. Who is Mort Postel? Jon's brothers are Russ and Tom. http://www.usc.edu/ext-relations/news_service/releases/stories/35680.html Postel is survived by his

Re: [IFWP] Not taken for granite

2000-04-07 Thread Michael Sondow
Richard J. Sexton wrote: I don't get this article. Who is Mort Postel? Could it be Jon's ghost (i.e. "la Mort" Postel)? Michael Sondow I.C.I.I.U. http://www.iciiu.org Tel. (718)846-7482Fax:

Re: [IFWP] Not taken for granite

2000-04-07 Thread Ellen Rony
I've attended several of these Postel memorial events, and Russ and Mort were to names I recall, not Tom. Richard J. Sexton wrote: I don't get this article. Who is Mort Postel? Could it be Jon's ghost (i.e. "la Mort" Postel)?

Re: [IFWP] ICANN Meta Questions

2000-04-07 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 10:10 AM 4/7/00 -0700, you wrote: "Richard J. Sexton" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) Where is the community consensus that the GAC should be a part of all this? 2) Why is working group C asked to decide "how many tlds and what names" ? That sounds like a loaded question just waiting for the

Re: [IFWP] ICANN Meta Questions

2000-04-07 Thread Greg Skinner
"Richard J. Sexton" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, the people picked what they picked. Thousands and thousands of them. It seems more likely than not. Really? On what grounds? They could very well have decided to register in .com regardless. --gregbo

Re: [IFWP] ICANN Meta Questions

2000-04-07 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 01:53 PM 4/7/00 -0700, you wrote: "Richard J. Sexton" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, the people picked what they picked. Thousands and thousands of them. It seems more likely than not. Really? On what grounds? They could very well have decided to register in .com regardless. You're

Re: [IFWP] ICANN Meta Questions

2000-04-07 Thread Greg Skinner
"Richard J. Sexton" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're trying to get me to believe company-online.com would rather be company-online.com than company.online ? I aint buying that, sorry. We could go on arguing about this for days. Nothing can be determined until someone finds out from those

Re: [IFWP] ICANN Meta Questions

2000-04-07 Thread Jeff Williams
Richard and all, Richard Sexton asks some very good questions here that need, and even demand good answers. Our organization has some views on these questions that we believe are relevant as well as very important now and more so in the future Richard J. Sexton wrote: (Never meta