[IFWP] Froomkin Wrong On No GCCA Violation

2000-10-27 Thread Michael Sondow
In his most recent article (Duke Law Journal 50:17, and available at http://personal.law.miami.edu/~froomkin), Mr. Froomkin writes that the creation of ICANN did not violate federal laws and specifically was not in violation of the Government Corporation Control Act (GCCA). Mr. Froomkin writes: "

[IFWP] Criteria for the Establishment of New Regional Internet Registries

2000-10-27 Thread Michael Sondow
To the ASO, ICANN, and Whomever Else It May Concern: This is a formal protest against the adoption of any criteria whatsoever for the establishment of new regional Internet registries by ICANN, and the proposal of such criteria by the Address Supporting Organization (ASO), as there has been no bo

[IFWP] Re: Dealing with Spam from Esther Dyson

2000-10-27 Thread Joe Baptista
Tim - you have to understand that Esther is trying to remain relevant in a world that increasingly sees her as last years meat rack. Ester knowns me, in fact she spent most of her last trip to Cairo trying to convence lawyers that I should be sued for something. She blames me for scaring off pr

[IFWP] Re: Dealing with Spam from Esther Dyson

2000-10-27 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
I missed this. Can you or anyone please forward to me the spam Ester sent you. I know the old crow and i'm sure there are some people on domain policy who would love to read her spam. regards joe On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, R. A. Hettinga wrote: > At 6:47 PM -0700 on 10/27/00, Tim May wrote: > >

[IFWP] Palestine & DNS DDOS Attacks - pending

2000-10-27 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
Recently Palestinian hackers have responded to an israeli hacker distributed denial of service attack against a palestinian web site by launching DDOS attacks against israeli sites. It would be interesting to see if the palestinians attack the israeli country code domain .il - they certainly wou

[IFWP] Streamlining Domain Squabbles

2000-10-27 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
Streamlining Domain Squabbles (Politics 2:00 a.m. PDT) http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,39591,00.html?tw=wn20001026 Websites preparing to do battle over ownership of domain names have new tools to help build their cases. Several groups are organizing the arbitration results so that argum

[IFWP] I-DNS

2000-10-27 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
I've recently written a sync program to keep non USG roots in sync with legacy tld data. And while I was doing so - I noticed I-DNS recently started providing dns service to cctld .ec (ecuador) and just today they started doing dns for .la (laos). -- Joe Baptista

[IFWP] A little Jeff Williams in the morning goes a long way

2000-10-27 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
Did'nt know this was there http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/proposals/ineginc/ineginc.htm regards joe -- Joe Baptista http://www.dot.god/ dot.GOD Hostmaster +1 (