Re: Re[2]: [ga-roots] Community Roots or Red Herrings)

[kstubbs@digitel.net (Digitel - Ken Stubbs)]

taking your arguements at face....

would you also feel that it wold also be accptable  in creating alternate
roots to allow alternate ".uk", "fr", ".de" "us" and  "com" as well ?

ken stubbs

----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Higgs" <simon@higgs.com>
To: <ga-roots@dnso.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 3:14 PM
Subject: Re[2]: [ga-roots] Community Roots or Red Herrings)


> At 10:03 AM 5/10/01 -0700, William X. Walsh wrote:
>
> >ICANN can't develop policy prohibiting privately run alt.roots, and
> >what alt.roots do is outside of the oversight of ICANN.
>
> Sure it can. ICANN is free to develop policies and lobby all they want to
> outlaw alt.roots and non-compliant DNS. It is free to create "ICANN DNS
> Only" policies and sign contracts with others enforcing it.
>
> But it's not a good idea. It's a technological form of racism that has
deep
> historical precedent. Making alt.roots illegal is no different than
banning
> specific ethnic groups from restaurants or putting up "[insert you colour
> preference] Only" signs. Unfortunately, apartheid is alive and well in the
> DNS. I just have a hard time accepting that people like Kent Crispin (who
> really should know better) support these ideas.
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Simon
>
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