Re: [ga] i just sent the following to south africa

[Joe Baptista <baptista@dot-god.com>]

This whole discussion is pointless and irrelevant.  The issue has nothing
to do with the integrety of the alt roots.  The issue is maintaining the
integrety and security of any root - and these days the only way any
government can guarantee that is to run it's own root system.


regards
joe

On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Joop Teernstra wrote:

> At 10:29 p.m. 10/06/2002 -0700, William X Walsh wrote:
> >Monday, June 10, 2002, 4:07:20 PM, Joop Teernstra wrote:
> >
> > > Awareness of the fact that William X. Walsh contracted to write the
> > > software (POSSR2) for pacificroot , but maintains in public that he
> > opposes
> > > "alternate" roots
> >
> >And I despise you, in public and private, Joop.  However, if you
> >contracted with me to write you a piece of software, I'd do it too.
>
> The points that you do not want to get  are still standing:
>
> 1.  When it comes to surveillance or customer treatment AltRoots are as
> much in need of public confidence as the  ICANN/USG root.    Rogue roots
> are utterly unaccountable.
> 2.  Registry software for pacificroot is written by someone who professes
> publicly to be against alternate roots.
>
> You want to spin this as a matter of personal dislike-- I don't. I say that
> either the software coder is unprincipled and the rogue foolish or things
> are not what they seem.
> If a sensible altroot operator  was in need of registry software, would he
> ever contract with someone whom he knew as an opponent of the very idea?
>
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