Re: [IFWP] Analyzing ICANN - The committee that would be king

1999-09-13 Thread Werner Staub
Ken, It is still not correct. Jon Postel's action could not disrupt any traffic. Regards, Werner Ken Freed wrote: Perseverence furthers. How's this for historic accuracy? "Evidently exhibiting his displeasure with the situation, Jon Postel at IANA issued an electronic directive that

Re: [IFWP] ICANN's orientation

1999-09-13 Thread Werner Staub
Tony, Of course if would be appropriate to correct the wording on the ICANN web site. But you know this has nothing to do with ICANN's orientation. Or maybe from now on you will also complain whenever you see a US phone number written without the US country prefix, saying that this is an

Re: [IFWP] Analyzing ICANN - The committee that would be king

1999-09-10 Thread Werner Staub
Ken, Below is the rewritten paragraph from http://www.media-visions.com/icann-gtld.htm "Evidently showing his displeasure with the situation, Jon Postel at IANA issued an electronic directive that "reoriented" or redirected routing on some root servers. By temporarily disrupting portions

Re: [IFWP] Analyzing ICANN - The committee that would be king

1999-09-09 Thread Werner Staub
Ken, Could you comment on the following excerpt from http://www.media-visions.com/icann-gtld.htm "Jon Postel showed his displeasure with the situation by redirecting the root servers, temporarily disrupting world Internet traffic." Regards, Werner -- Tel: +41 22 312 5600 Direct

Re: [IFWP] Analyzing ICANN - The committee that would be king

1999-09-09 Thread Werner Staub
Ken, You said, more precisely, that Jon Postel temporarily "disrupted Internet traffic" by "redirecting" the root servers. Could you explain whose traffic was disrupted, and how? Regards, Werner Ken Freed wrote: Werner -- What sort of comment would you like? He was in a position to

Re: [IFWP] The rough consensus in Berlin and ICANN's bylaws

1999-08-09 Thread Werner Staub
Tony, What's been bothersome is how the NDA - which was meant to protect all testbed participants ^^^ against snipping public remarks - has been used against NSI, (...) When NSI uses confidentiality agreements and performance bonds to slow down the access of new

Re: [IFWP] European Commission to investigate NSI

1999-08-02 Thread Werner Staub
Tony, So you say that the EC has protectionist motivations in investigating NSI, and at the same time you acknowledge that there is no-one to protect. These are two entirely different topics. The term "protectionist" is synonymous with strategic industrial policy and preservation of

Re: [IFWP] European Commission to investigate NSI

1999-07-31 Thread Werner Staub
Tony, But could you clarify *whom* the EC tries to protect by investigating NSI, in your opinion? You're asking the same question that I am! So you say that the EC has protectionist motivations in investigating NSI, and at the same time you acknowledge that there is no-one to protect.

Re: [IFWP] European Commission to investigate NSI

1999-07-30 Thread Werner Staub
Tony, The European Commission looks, of course, at the global European figures. Obviously, if the European ccNICs had the dominant position you show as hypothesis, the things would be different. After all, DG IV should be silly to bother for 0.01%, don't you agree? Not necessarily -

Re: [IFWP] European Commission to investigate NSI

1999-07-30 Thread Werner Staub
Tony, The market share of ESTENA - the Ministry of Education Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg is nearly 100% in Luxembourg. Please tell us how you calculate this. I suspect you are simply dividing the total number of .lu registrations by the total number of .lu registrations gTLD market