Re: [ga] DNSO ICANN board member

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Jefsey and all remaining assembly members,

  Please reserve takea.wiz for kent.  I think that is mostly what
he does...  Except he does it when facing the wind...

Jefsey Morfin wrote:

> Kent,
> I am sorry. I think you made a dream.
>
> May be you know DNSO is part of the ICANN and ICANN has
> initiated a process (of which the DNSO is no part) to open new
> TLDs. I joined here because I have two TLDs to open, as you
> know .sys and .wiz. with innovative concepts and real market
>
> 1) ICANN tells me "give me everything plus $ 50.000 a piece".
>      Which is not acceptable, while we still consider it.
>
> 2) our other option is to start operating
>       -  as an ULD, ie an upper level domain (any one can do it,
>          as com.uk for example)
>      -   as an alternative root
>      (I see no technical difference beut a big marketing one).
>
> 3) while we studied this, NSI annouced they had created scores
>      of de facto international TLDs (in a marketing sense), that they
>      will use an excluive protocol with companies supposed to be our
>      registrars, and they copied our concepts and well known name
>      in their annoucement. We do not feel protected by ICANN and
>      we do not understand (as ccTLD don't either) what ICANN can
>      brings us for the price.
>
> Our concern is not old academic histories, but real operations,
> business and development.I love poetry, I compose classic music
> and I can talk religion and philosophy for hours, but here we are in
> a real world with WWW (web world war) at hands.
>
> Please understand that Jon Postel days are *over*. That Ester
> Dyson, Mke Roberts, Beky Burr, Jon Sims days are *over*. They
> know it it, they said they go. What lies ahead are the professionnal
> days. Next chairman is said to be from WorldCom, not anymore a
> gentle venture capitalist. Verisgn/NSI made the fest move. Who is
> next?. May be we know this week. You have to decide: either
> you join force with us the people or if you join forces with them
> the big ones. Your decision, not mine.
>
> -  if only a few TLDs they will be expansive and be own by banks,
>     air lines, geneal  stores, hotel chains... and forget about small
>     companies making business on the web. Rules will change.
>
> -  if TLDs are plenty, ".aol", ".air", ".bank" etc. will still be around,
>     we will still have WWW in other fields but the current web will
>     still be here. May be the present web will survive.
>
> I am sorry I did not chose the alternative root option: you did in
> being trapped in so few TLDs. Giving them a so high value. You
> just left me/all of us with the alternative root option. Either you
> help us through that situation in explaining around that opening
> a new TLD is three words per line on an ascii file or you kill the
> web you like.
> Again, your decision.
> Jefsey
>
> At 19:54 04/09/00, you wrote:
> >On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 10:20:18AM -0700, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
> > > Other root-zones exist, with various flavors of success and
> > > implementation completion, right now.
> >
> >Right.  And they are totally irrelevant to our purposes here.  The only
> >thing this forum can do anything at all about is the ICANN root, and it
> >is an utter waste of time to discuss alternates.
> >
> >--
> >Kent Crispin                               "Do good, and you'll be
> >kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain
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