[ga] Re: Stop the addition of new TLD's - Understand the REAL issues of Internet.

["matt hooker" <matthooker@hotmail.com>]

11/14/99

To the General Assembly, the DNSO and Working group C:

Working group C does not have my agreement or consensus that any new gTLD's 
should be approved. I have noticed a very unsettling attempt to push new 
gTLD's through as quickly as possible (since I joined the group at the 
November meetings in Los Angeles), principally for ideological or political 
reasons; by those who prefer anarchy or chaos to structure, by those who 
want to upset the existing power srtucture and give power to a new group, by 
those seeking a kind of revenge against NSI and by those seeking personal, 
or group economic gain.

I have been researching, reading the archives and formulating my very 
persuasive argument which I shall post tomorrow (Monday 11/15) or Tuesday. I 
believe many serious errors have been made as regards the number and type of 
TLD's allowed to exist so far; that these errors are limiting what the 
Internet can be; and most importantly, that they are seriously limiting the 
ease or facility of human interaction with the Internet, and of human 
interaction with each other using the Internet.

These considerations, and these considerations ALONE should guide us in 
planning for and implementing the future of the Internet, and if necessary, 
correcting errors made in the past.

Thus, an immediate moratorium should be placed on the addition of any more 
TLD's until this issue, and the great deal at stake, is clearly understood 
by everyone. Within 1 or 2 days I will be sending out a very clear 
explanation of what has been done that limits what the Internet can be, and 
what we can do to correct the situation.

All this talk about new gTLD,s, new registries, whether they should be 
non-profit or for-profit, ... is really just private agendas, economic, 
political or ideological usually, put forward by individuals and groups of 
individuals for individual or group gain. Almost none of it has anything to 
do with the real task at hand, and will seem almost irrelevant in the face 
of what I have to say to you on Monday or Tuesday.

Until Monday or Tuesday,

Matt Hooker
matthooker@hotmail.com


----Original Message Follows----
From: Jonathan Weinberg <weinberg@mail.msen.com>
To: "Rick H. Wesson" <wessorh@ar.com>, wg-c@dnso.org
Subject: Re: [wg-c] chair
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 23:46:03 -0500

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