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

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

Ken,

I'm puzzled. Aren't you are a big supporter of collision making? You 
supported the gTLD-MOU/CORE .WEB collider in 1997, and now you support the 
ICANN .BIZ collider. Don't you have a personal financial incentive to 
create a .BIZ collider? So why wouldn't someone else follow your example 
and create a real ccTLD or gTLD collider for their own financial gain?

For everyone else, the correct answers are:

1. No collisions are acceptable, ever. Period.
2. "Technological racism" at the root is completely unacceptable. Period.

Q. What do we have left?
A. A chance for the entire Internet community to finally work together to 
create a non-colliding root zone.

The precedent set by ICANN in creating a collider will just provide the 
example for other roots to do the same. The DNS snaps like a twig.

>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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Best Regards,

Simon Higgs

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