Re: [IFWP] One World, Under GAC!

2000-04-18 Thread Michael Sondow
Jay Fenello wrote: Exactly the opposite of what we were told: "The Commission has confirmed to the US authorities that the powers retained by the United States DoC regarding ICANN should be effectively divested, as foreseen in the US White Paper. The necessary governmental oversight of

[IFWP] Criticism of Lessig's recent book

2000-04-18 Thread Greg Skinner
http://stlr.stanford.edu/STLR/Working_Papers/00_Rotenberg_1 This is a working paper, so please do not cite it without the author's permission. I gave the paper a quick read, and there's nothing in it that's directly related to ICANN. --gregbo

Re: [IFWP] Criticism of Lessig's recent book

2000-04-18 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
wrong url - try http://stlr.stanford.edu/STLR/Working_Papers/00_rotenberg_1/index.htm On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Greg Skinner wrote: http://stlr.stanford.edu/STLR/Working_Papers/00_Rotenberg_1 This is a working paper, so please do not cite it without the author's permission. I gave the paper

[IFWP] alternate roots and the dns that serves them

2000-04-18 Thread Joe Baptista
A few people have contacted me with respect to alternate root servers and a prior post to domain policy. So I've made this report of known root server confederation and what nameservers were pointing to them. I may make the actual data file available is there's enough interest - in any case

Re: [IFWP] alternate roots and the dns that serves them

2000-04-18 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
I just went through my little list here and found something interesting - one service http://www.mobiledns.com/ offers alternate roots to .web tld's and private tld's to their customers. Very inovative of them On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Joe Baptista wrote: A few people have contacted me with

[IFWP] RE: TM Sunrise +20 (Re: [wg-b] WG-B Report -Take II)

2000-04-18 Thread Richard J. Sexton
From: "Judith Oppenheimer" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Hartman, Steve" [EMAIL PROTECTED], "'Harald Tveit Alvestrand'" [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Wg-B@Dnso. Org" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [bwg+] RE: TM Sunrise +20 (Re: [wg-b] WG-B Report -Take II) Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000

[IFWP] Re: [council] suggested draft resolution for today's NC call

2000-04-18 Thread Richard J. Sexton
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 1:42 PM To: Wg-B; Chicoine, Caroline; Paul M. Kane Cc: Registrars List; 'Louis Touton'; 'Andrew McLaughlin'; 'names council'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Michael Schneider' Subject: [wg-b] RE: [registrars] Re: [council] suggested draft resolution for today's NC call To

[IFWP] Re: alternate roots and the dns that serves them

2000-04-18 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
Any dns server can operate as a root server. If a dns server runs the "." zone - then it's s root server. Example - if I wanted to operate a root server using the ORSC roots, as i do on mine - I secondary the file from the ORSC primary root server. Example: I would change my named.conf file

[IFWP] Re: Alternative Roots LIABILITY??? Some Questions...

2000-04-18 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Ron Bennett wrote: Before people get all excited about alternative roots, think about liability... For example what happens if an alternative root has incorrect information?? That's not possible Ie. Let's say an alternative root has Buy.com pointing to some

[IFWP] Re: alternate roots and the dns that serves them

2000-04-18 Thread Joe Baptista
On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Bob Garth wrote: Joe, thank you, that was great(!!!), and yes, it answers most of my questions, but one. At what version of bind/named needs to be used that supports .db (database files) other than the obvious, the most recent? Just wondering if it's nessacary for me

[IFWP] [Random-bits] Stefan Friedman: no 3-letter .com names left (fwd)

2000-04-18 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 18:11:27 -0400 From: James Love [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list RANDOM-BITS [EMAIL PROTECTED], ecommerce [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Random-bits] Stefan Friedman: no 3-letter .com names left As ICANN

[IFWP] Re: [Nc-tlds] Re: DNSO Names Council decides it can discount andignore its working groups

2000-04-18 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
There's a few problems with the namespace roots which I'll spell out here. 1. Non of the namespace root servers provide for zone transfers of the root. Therefore it is impossible to determine what tld space is in them. 2. Lack of co-operation - when John Hunt enumerated the namespace he

[IFWP] Re: [Nc-tlds] Re: DNSO Names Council decides it can discount and ignore its working groups

2000-04-18 Thread Michael Sondow
James Love wrote: We are more likely to be involved in proposals for other civil society TLDs. Those proposals will be treated by the INTA, WIPO, and the DNSO NC with the same disdain as .union or anything else that they see as complicating or intruding on their hegemony over the traditional

[IFWP] Joke of the day

2000-04-18 Thread Richard J. Sexton
Three beggars are begging in New York City. The first one wrote "beg" on his broken steel cup and he received ten bucks after one day. The second one wrote "beg.com" on his cup and after one day he received hundreds of thousand dollars. Someone even wanted to take him to NASDAQ. The third

[IFWP] Re: [Nc-tlds] NSI/Roger Cochetti's registry concept paper

2000-04-18 Thread Michael Sondow
Roger Cochetti says: A decision to start now with at least two new "proof of concept" TLDs, by means that allow careful yet rapid deployment, will not in any way limit ICANN's approach to future namespace expansion. This is disingenuous and untrue. The first ones will obviously become a

[IFWP] Re: [Nc-tlds] NSI/Roger Cochetti's registry concept paper

2000-04-18 Thread Gordon Cook
Roger Cochetti says: In other words, put into immediate effect a measure which is currently being hotly disputed and which runs directly counter to the interests of a large percentage of Internet users. In the spirit of gaining new experience and as a reflection of the rapid global growth

Re: [IFWP] Re: [Nc-tlds] Re: DNSO Names Council decides it candiscount and ignore its working groups

2000-04-18 Thread Ellen Rony
As irony would have it given recent discussions here about .union and .sucks, our local county newspaper, the Marin Independent Journal, ran a feature article today, "Online whines with a bitter aftertaste." Dan Parisi , founder of Whitehouse.com (a porn site) has spent approximately $100,000 to