Re: [ga] Re VeriSign/RealNames

[Eric Dierker <eric@HI-TEK.COM>]

Dear fine Gentlemen,

May peace find you and may your children be happy because you are their
father.

You two really do know a lot about this topic and may I be so bold as to
request
that you post some insight onto the list from a technical perspective as
to why
this is not exactly what was touted as the boogie man of inclusive
roots.

Let us start with the premise that we are not talking about addresses
here but
about names and their uses.  Although please back up and educate why if
taken
incorrectly my statement is wrong.

Please also take it as a given that to us dotcommoners it looks just the
same.

Thank you for any effort you may afford, and try to remember for each
dummy like
me you educate we will relate it to a bunch more dummies, and I do not
know if
that is good or bad.

Sincerely,
Eric

Tim Langdell wrote:

> Paul
>
> I don't understand your message. The reason I didn't mention XTNS in my
> response is because Danny's message didn't reference XTNS at all. His
> comments were solely restricted to VeriSign and Realnames Keywords products.
>
> As to you other points, I am totally mystified. We have not "made plenty of
> noise about offering dotted keywords" -- in fact we have never once said
> that we offer "dotted keywords" (not the least because we do not). The
> namespaces we do offer are still on sale on our site and have not been
> removed. Indeed they were recently enhanced by the launch of our fully
> multilingual namespaces in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hebrew and Arabic. I
> am thus entirely at a loss to understand any part of your message.
>
> Tim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Cotton" <paulc@joinin.com>
> To: <ga@dnso.org>
> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:22 PM
> Subject: [ga] Re VeriSign/RealNames
>
> > Hi Tim,
> >
> > I notice you are not including a reply about XTNS in your response, odd
> > given you are its CEO.
> >
> > Its funny, because you made plenty of noise about XTNS offering dotted
> > keywords and how they would act like real domains, and then you simply
> > removed all mention of it from your site and never communicated with any
> of
> > your customers who had ordered them based on your patently erroneous
> > statements.
> >
> > If anything the XTNS farce just reinforces the validity of "real" DNS.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Paul Cotton
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Tim Langdell" <tim@xtns.net>
> > To: <dannyyounger@cs.com>; <lynn@icann.org>
> > Cc: <ga@dnso.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 10:09 PM
> > Subject: Re: [ga] VeriSign/RealNames
> >
> >
> > Danny
> >
> > I do not speak for either Realnames or VeriSign, but I feel compelled to
> > correct you on what you say. Realnames Keywords are not in any way in
> > potential or real conflict with ICANN approved domain names. Keywords are
> > either single words or more than word separate by spaces (not dots). These
> > are the Keywords that VeriSign and Realnames announced would be available
> > via the VeriSign network. There is thus no possibility of different
> answers
> > as you say, or variance based on choice of browser (other than for
> Realnames
> > Keywords, which is surely not a concern for you is it? Certainly not for
> > ICANN).
> >
> > Last, Realnames Keywords do not "look like TLDs". Again, they lack dots in
> > them and instead have spaces or are single words.
> >
> > Tim
> >
> >
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