RE: [ga] John Perry Barlow: This is not what Postel wanted

["John B. Reynolds" <john@reynolds.chicago.il.us>]

Perhaps you could explain how Mr. Barlow's comments regarding a lawsuit in
which ICANN is not involved, under a US law that many ICANN supporters
opposed, constitutes an indictment of ICANN.

P.S.  If Mr. Kettmann is planning to continue to write on DNS issues, he
should learn how to spell Jon Postel's name.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ga@dnso.org [mailto:owner-ga@dnso.org]On Behalf Of Mark C.
> Langston
> Sent: Friday, 17 December 1999 17:02
> To: ga@dnso.org
> Subject: [ga] John Perry Barlow: This is not what Postel wanted
>
>
>
> Wired news is reporting on the etoy.com/etoys.com battle, and John
> Perry Barlow's position within it (co-counder of the EFF, now on
> the etoy Crisis Advisory Board, along with the Chairman of InfoSeek
> Japan, and NPR commentator Douglas Rushkoff).
>
> Barlow is quoted as saying, in regards to current domain name
> disputes:
>
> "If John Postel were alive, he'd be in tears," Barlow said.
>
>                      "He was a very principled, decent man. He knew that
>                      the spirit of fairness was best served by a policy of
>                      first-come, first-served. It wasn't served
> by a policy
>                      of 'who has the largest and meanest legal firm wins.'
>                      He also made a sincere effort to abstract names of
>                      companies in the real world from domain names,
>                      because domain names are not like trademarks. They
>                      are different than trademarks. "
>
>
>
>
> The article goes on, but read it for yourself.
>
> A dose of a different opinion than those who insist on waving Postel's
> name around here as a blessing on all that happens within ICANN.
>
> For those of you as fed up with this as I am:  We should actively
> attempt to get Barlow, the EFF, and the rest of the eoy.com supporters
> engaged here.  Perhaps if the working groups were stuffed with those
> who want to change the Net for the better, instead of being top-heavy
> with corporate interests, something good could come of this.
>
> --
> Mark C. Langston
> mark@bitshift.org
> Systems Admin
> San Jose, CA
>