[IFWP] general announcement - Jonathan Cohen - revisited

2000-05-01 Thread Joe Baptista
This is a general announcement - I will soon be replying to Mr. Cohen - an icann director who has lost his place if not his head. Mr. Cohens statement is repeated below to refresh everyone's memory. Regards Joe Baptista -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 12:32:30

[IFWP] ICANN Meetings in Yokohama

2000-05-01 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
Just a brief note to the troops. As always PCCF continues it's fine tradition of reaching out to our government officials. I have just received the most recent report from our Yokohama daemons which are as I type surfing japanese government computer sites collecting, compiling and indexing

[IFWP] GAC ccTLD Proposal

2000-05-01 Thread Michael Sondow
In case anyone is unaware, or has forgotten, the GAC has made the following insidious proposals: http://www.icann.org/gac/gac-cctldprinciples-23feb00.htm --- Principles for Delegation and Administration of ccTLDs Presented by

Re: [IFWP] GAC ccTLD Proposal

2000-05-01 Thread Richard J. Sexton
Let them. Let Paul womey and his band of merry pranksters have the two letter tld-space; they're hard to remember anyway, and this keeps all the control freaks nicely tucked away in one place. Then develop the three letter country code space, or, just use the country name. At 04:46 PM 5/1/00

[IFWP] Finally - the Christians have arrived, was Re: Christ IS Risen!

2000-05-01 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
Alexander: Welcome to ICANN's NCDNHC. For a history of ICANN and info on why it is against god and everything else good with the world - please reference the following URL. http://www.cookreport.com/icannoverall.shtml I advocate the creation of family value top level domains. If you

Re: [IFWP] Dave Farber ...Getting the congress involved will backfire. Cook: why?

2000-05-01 Thread Greg Skinner
Gordon Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At least with congress and the lobbyists there are some rules for the conduct of public policy in an accountable fashion. IMHO, the only thing that congress has going for it is that it's elected by the public. Beyond that, it's just as subject to capture