Re: [ga] Text of Radio Ad which will start running nationwide on 7/7/2000

["Ken Stubbs" <kstubbs@corenic.org>]

discuss all you wish simon ...

i just suggested we try to keep the "commercials" out of the rhetoric

if that offends you.... deal with it ...

ken stubbs


----- Original Message -----
From: Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>
To: Rick H Wesson <wessorh@ar.com>
Cc: Ken Stubbs <kstubbs@corenic.org>; <ga@dnso.org>; John Palmer
<jp@ADNS.NET>; Harald Tveit Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 7:25 PM
Subject: Re: [ga] Text of Radio Ad which will start running nationwide on
7/7/2000


> Rick,
>
> I'm more disgusted and offended by your email than John's. John's
statement
> is protected (especially in light of Canadian and US broadcast
regulations)
> under the 1st Amendment in the US.
>
> It is a dissenting voice of ICANN's handling of Domain Name issues, and
was
> posted to the General Assembly mailing list of the Domain Name Supporting
> Organization of ICANN. This happens to be the official forum, and news of
> that dissenting voice is entirely appropriate to initiate discussion in
> that context.
>
> You, on the other hand, advocate censorship - to "stop unwanted e-mails" -
> of that which you do not agree. That censorship has absolutely no place in
> an open internet forum.
>
> Whether I agree with the posting or not is totally irrelevant. The point
is
> both you and Ken have attempted to stifle discussion about relevant
current
> events which affect both the public face of ICANN, and the policies that
> are discussed in the DNSO.
>
> The problem I now see is that the message rings truer after your and Ken's
> response than it did when it was originally posted.
>
> >Ken,
> >
> >If we only could stop unwanted e-mails.
> >
> >I suggest the ADNS folks stop using ICANN gTLDs. If they would only
> >use their own gTLDs and not ICANNs I think we all would be alot happier.
> >
> >ttfn,
> >
> >-rick
> >
> >
> >On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Ken Stubbs wrote:
> >
> > > this kind of an advertisement is not at all appropriate for the ga
list !!!
> > >
> > > this is a forum for open discussion... not open advertising
> > >
> > >
> > > ken stubbs
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > >   From: John Palmer
> > >   To: ga@dnso.org
> > >   Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 1:05 PM
> > >   Subject: [ga] Text of Radio Ad which will start running nationwide
on
> > 7/7/2000
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >   Things are about to change on the internet and not for the better.
> > >
> > >   The US government has sanctioned a new organization, ICANN, to be
> > >
> > >   in charge of internet domains and addresses. Rather than making the
> > internet
> > >
> > >   more open, ICANN is restricting domain ownership rights and has sold
out
> > >
> > >   to powerful special interest.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >   There is an alternative. The same characteristics that make the
internet
> > >
> > >   able to survive a nuclear strike allow internet users to go around
> > >
> > >   organizations like ICANN and their special interest masters.
Alternative
> > >
> > >   domain networks, such as the Open Root Server Consortium, allow you
> > to see
> > >
> > >   ALL of the sites available on the internet, not just the ones that
ICANN
> > >
> > >   wants you to see. If you are an Internet provider, you can go around
> > ICANN and
> > >
> > >   make the entire internet available to your users in only 2 minutes.
Are
> > >
> > >   you an internet user whose ISP is still using the ICANN-controlled
domain
> > >
> > >   name system? A few simple steps is all it takes for you to bypass
> > ICANN and
> > >
> > >   see all of the sites on the internet.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >   This announcement is sponsored by ADNS, owner and registrar for the
> > >
> > >   top level domains EARTH, USA and Z. ADNS is a proud supporter of
> > >
> > >   the Open Root Server Consortium.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >   Do you operate a website? Are you frustrated that your first choice
> > >
> > >   for a domain name was taken? You can now obtain a domain ending in
> > >
> > >   ".EARTH", ".USA" or ".Z". To register an EARTH, USA or Z domain and
for
> > >
> > >   more information about the ICANN takeover of the internet and what
> > you can do
> > >
> > >   to stop it, visit the ADNS website at WWW.ADNS.NET,
> > >
> > >   thats WWW.ADNS.NET. Don't let ICANN's special interests hijack the
> > >
> > >   internet and remember, ICANN really means YOU CAN'T
> > >
> >
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> Best Regards,
>
> Simon Higgs
>
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