Fw: FW: [ga-roots] TLD's

["NameCritic" <watch-dog@inreach.com>]

Chris McElroy aka NameCritic

----- Original Message -----
From: "NameCritic" <watch-dog@inreach.com>
To: "Kent Crispin" <kent@songbird.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2001 5:37 AM
Subject: Re: FW: [ga-roots] TLD's


> I find it pretty cool the way you take part of Gene's post to answer and
> then add the fact ICANN doesn't operate a root either as if you said this
> and it was something new. He said exactly that in the part you didn't post
> from his email.
>
> Is everything you personally disagree with wrong, Kent? Why of course it
is.
> Why did I even ask? Sorry. Just ignore it like you do most everything else
> from those you disagree with.
>
> Chris McElroy aka NameCritic
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kent Crispin" <kent@songbird.com>
> To: <ga-roots@dnso.org>
> Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2001 9:42 PM
> Subject: Re: FW: [ga-roots] TLD's
>
>
> > On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 12:10:33AM -0400, Gene Marsh wrote:
> > > > As such, I used the minutes from the TLDA meeting to show how a
small
> > > > number of individuals determine the fate of TLDs in other roots.
> > > <SNIP>
> > >
> > > The TLDA does not operate a root.  The TLDA is not a root.  The TLDA
> does
> > > not represent a root.  The TLDA does not hold a TLD.
> >
> > Sorry, you are playing semantic games.  According to the charter the
> > TLDA serves
> >
> >     "...to serve as a clearing house providing for the fair resolution
> >     of TLD collisions; to promote cooperation and provide liaison
> >     between TLD Holders and Root Managers in the interests of
> >     collision-free choice to the world Internet community; to
> >     periodically publish a single, up-to-date, comprehensive compilation
> >     of all known TLDs..."
> >
> > That is, it provides what it purports to be the root zone file, and
> > provides the mechanism to decide what goes in that file.  Whether it
> > physically operates a root server is beside the point -- ICANN doesn't
> > physically operate a root server, either.
> >
> > So, in the TLDA world view, it is the trade association of TLD managers
> > that determine what goes into the root zone, and nobody else.  There is
> > no open process, no community input, nothing like that -- it is a pure
> > cartel.
> >
> > --
> > Kent Crispin                               "Be good, and you will be
> > kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain
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