[ga-full] An Open letter to ICANN (fwd)

["!Dr. Joe Baptista" <baptista@pccf.net>]

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 15:39:22 -0400
From: Rick Harris <rharris1@BCONNEX.NET>
To: DOMAIN-POLICY@LISTS.INTERNIC.NET
Subject: An Open letter to ICANN

Mr. Mike Roberts
CEO
ICANN

RE: NICANN and the new dot.pod TLD


Dear Mr. Roberts,
I would like to invite you to join the Board of Directors
of NICANN (New Internet Company For Assigned Names and
Numbers). I am presently in the process of writing the
charter. NICANN trademark has been filed to Industry
Canada, but not (yet) to USPTO.

NICANN has set up a new  dot pod (.pod) TLD.
"POD" or "PODS" is/are "personal online domains". Dot pods
are accessible to everyone on earth and are resolved
through the root zone file at NSI. The master address for
NICANN is www.nicann.com (but it is still under construction).
The  URL for the mechanism that will route domain names
through the root zone controlled by ICANN and NSI
is http://www.ww.ws which resolves nicely as "ww.ws"
through the ISO 3166 ccTLD - which is as you know -.ws.
Hence the  master domain name "ww.ws", as in "world wide web
(second edition)" known also by its pseudonym  "ICANN 2.0".

Dot "pod" is an aggregation of 300 master (dot com) "pods" that
resolve through the DNS by pretending to be dot coms: hence: the brand
names Futurepod (tm) and Cyber I.D.(tm), both of which have been
filed to USPTO and are capable of providing a proprietary personal
online domain (identity), theoretically  to every person
on the planet through an architecture that bypasses
ICANN  - and resolves PERFECTLY through the
root zone file on the DNS. There are no short cuts required.
Everyone gets (a) a proprietary dot pod (personal online
domain) AND  (b) a proprietary dot com - that's right, a dot
com -  that resolves PERFECTLY through NSI.

NICANN dot coms can be sold for as little as $5.00, which
is (below) cost for ALL ICANN-accredited registrars
(except of course NSI) and can, thus, bring down the entire dot
commodification of the world wide web - if one chooses to do so. This,
however, I would not endorse because such would be both
irresponsible and, perhaps, destabilizing for the DNS.

In addition, NICANN dot com(s) also have the advantage of
web commerce and web connectivity for everyone from INSIDE
the ICANN root - without having to deal with
the pesky political intrigues that obtain from ICANN.

NSI and the root can not (of course) be avoided and, thus,
I intend to invite all other registrars
(and resellers) to sell NICANN dot.com(s) AND dot.pod(s).
These ICANN-accredited registrars will be able to charge what
they wish for a NICANN dot com: however,
they must also sell a dot.pod at the same time as the dot com
SLDs.

The dot pod (personal online domains) will also sell for $5.00
and, thus, no fee is payable to NSI or any other registrar for
dot.pod (s) for the simple reason that the dot pod architecture
resolves through http://www.ww.ws. I believe  NSI knows about this
and, thus, I will also invite NSI to resell the dot.pods.

I of course expect to receive a lot of flack from my elders
and betters who will say that it is not possible to assign
dot com addresses at below cost...short of philanthropy...
and that it is similarly not possible to create a dot pod (.pod)
TLD independently from ICANN.

I will respond to such persons by inviting them to sign the related
NDA. Having done that, they will receive a complete list of
the dot pods and, of course, the key to an understanding of
why it is possible to sell dot coms at below cost - and survive.
Please do let me know if any of this is of interest.
Thank you and cheers,
Rick Harris

--
This message was passed to you via the ga-full@dnso.org list.
Send mail to majordomo@dnso.org to unsubscribe
("unsubscribe ga-full" in the body of the message).
Archives at http://www.dnso.org/archives.html