RE: [ga] Older registrations

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>]

At 11:17 PM 3/28/00 -0800, Simon Higgs wrote:
>>To: simon@higgs.net, undisclosed recipients
>>From: "Richard J. Sexton" <richard@dnso.com>
>>Subject: RE: [ga] Older registrations
>>Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 19:19:46 -0500 (EST)
>>
>>(Feel free to redistribute this anywhere, Simon)

Indeed.  Distributing mis-information is always helpful.

Please be clear that Richard is the owner of DNSO.COM, a site designed to 
confuse visitors into thinking that it is part of DNSO.ORG, and which 
provides web pages for sending mail that falsely purports to be from 
others.  Yes, Richard is an excellent source of information about the 
details of this history.


>>I'd like to add I spoke to Jon Postel in person, only once, in Geneva
>>in 1998. We made idle chit chat for a few minutes then I asked him
>>"Jon, what the HELL were you thinking putting Metzger and Crocker
>>on the IHAC committee".

What is most fascinating is that a) Jon virtually never made the kind of 
comment that Richard cites, about anyone; that is, Jon was extremely 
circumspect in his comments about others; and b) he certainly never made 
such comments to me, in spite of my periodically checking with him as the 
IAHC work progressed.

How curious that he would make such a strongly critical comment to a casual 
acquaintance and not to his appointee.

>>Also, Kashpureff acted with Jon's blessing. Jon told him to go ahead

Well, now, that claim is one of the best fantasies we have seen put forward 
on the list.


>>So not only did Jon encourage the development of an alternative root
>>system, he pointed Wall St. poeple at him. Big ISP's like best.com
>>were using it, the ISP I use up here in the country was using it before
>>I ever moved here or ever talked to them. Even the IAHC used
>>AlterNIC roots[2], albeit unwittingly, but that's how much it was

This is a good example of the carelessness that frequently shows up in 
these discussions.

The IAHC web page was hosted on a machine that used a co-location service 
in California.  The co-lo ISP did use alternic, but the machine doing the 
hosting did not.  It went directly through the IANA root and never touched 
the ISP's dns server.


>>gaining acceptance - a lot of places really were using it. Not *ONE*
>>problem was ever reported, so stuff your stability arguments.

Problems were frequently report, pretty much everyone saw an email reply 
effort fail.


>>GTE Federal Systems used it - until Bob Shaw form the ITU called

One back-room GTE researcher was trying it out on one machine.  That is 
rather different from "GTE was using it."


>>Over the years, the de facto new domains working group has been
>>called every name in the book by Crocker and his ilk, and you can't

That's odd.  I thought my choice of vocabulary was pretty constrained and 
consistent.

I've primarily referred to it as a rogue effort from the beginning.


As to the continuing foolishness about special position for those who 
engaged in the rogue effort to replace the root -- mis-labeled as "pioneer" 
work -- let us remember the one, relevant legal review that has been 
made.  From <http://www.brandenburg.com/misc/iodesign-judge.html>, with 
IANA as one of the defendants and IODesign as the plaintiff:

>           What's most interesting about the breach of contract/estoppel 
> claim is that the claim made is that there was a contract entered into, 
> or that the Defendant should be estopped from denying that a contract was 
> entered into with an entity that the Plaintiff claims has no authority to 
> act.  And in drawing that conclusion, I don't mean to oversimplify and 
> sound cute about the inconsistency, but there's a real internal 
> inconsistency in the breach of contract position and again, the failure 
> to establish the elements of a contract.

d/

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