Bureau of Internet Affairs (was RE: [ga-roots] Community Roots or Red Herrings ))

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 09:51 PM 5/14/01 +1000, you wrote:

>|> The illustration is perfectly valid. There are a large number of
>|> unrepresented indigenous peoples now occupying the under-developed
>portions
>|> of the name space. These are the registrants of domain names in the
>|> alt.roots. ICANN is effectively taking these domain names away by
>|> _forcefully_ taking these areas of the name space for itself. Dassa and
>|> Kent Crispin are also recommending that the alt.roots (think Tribes) and
>|> their TLDs (think ethnic identity) become outlawed/criminalized and used
>|> with non-routable IP addresses (reservations).
>
>If you want to go down this path there are other scenarios that fit:
>There are a number of represented indigenous settlers in under developed
>name space.  These are the users of the legacy root system.

So what? All the alt.roots support/recognize them. This is called a *FACT*.

>The rogue roots

So who exactly is putting these words in your head? RFC2826 does not define 
which root you should use. All roots exist, individually, in compliance 
with RFC2826 unless *YOU* choose to resolve two or more of them. Of course, 
those are just *FACTs*.

>are infiltrating the name space and spiriting the name space away
>from the potential users on the legacy root system and justifying the

So you don't acknowledge the work of Jon Postel and the IANA. Some of these 
TLDs in alt.roots have IANA's permission to exist. A *FACT*.

What disturbs me the most here is this:

Why does a "potential user" have more rights than an actual user?
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>infiltration and theft of the name space as being for the greater good

Let me get this straight, for following the direct instructions of Jon 
Postel, and for working on Draft Postel with IANA's full knowledge (along 
with my own drafts published to complement Draft Postel), I am to be 
condemned as a criminal? This totally defies logic.

>whilst actually profiting from the theft of the name space and denying the
>majority direct access.

The bottom line here is that someone covets what someone else has, and is 
willing to do anything to take it away. For the greater good of the 
majority, and their bank balance, of course. This is exactly the mentality 
that has caused wars to be fought and thousands of people to die. Another 
documented *FACT*.

>|> History has clearly shown us the wrong way to deal with this. ICANN is
>|> repeating the same mistakes. I'm sorry if I have not been able to make
>this
>|> parallel understood more clearly. Unfortunately, there's a lot of
>baggage
>|> in the way for most people to understand this. I would like to thank the
>|> peoples of the First Nations for recently opening my eyes to this.
>
>It would be far more profitable and constructive if we can discuss the
>different viewpoints and attempt to find some common ground and attempt to
>build on it.

But you don't seem to want to do that. How long have you even had an 
opinion on this subject? 3 months? 6 months? You're only one keystroke away 
from a <plonk>.


Best Regards,

Simon Higgs

--
"Never underestimate the power of corruption to rewrite history."
  --Oliver Stone (San Jose Mercury News, July 16, 2000)

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