Re: [ga] Text of Radio Ad which will start running nationwide on 7/7/2000

[Sandy Harris <sandy@storm.ca>]

> John Palmer wrote:
> 
> Things are about to change on the internet and not for the better.
> The US government has sanctioned a new organization, ICANN,

It is far from just the US gov't. ICANN has a lot of international
representation, as it should for an international net.

> to be in charge of internet domains and addresses.

among other things.

> Rather than making the interne> more open, ICANN is restricting
> domain ownership rights and has sold out to powerful special
> interest.

What do you mean by that?

Granted, NSI are greedy, irritating and sometimes incompetent. Do
you think that is ICANN's fault?

Granted also, ICANN is being disgracefully slow getting new TLDs
in place. Can you not do something constructive to speed up the
process, rather than bypassing the whole structure?
 
> There is an alternative. The same characteristics that make the internet
> able to survive a nuclear strike allow

Nice bit of hype, that.

> internet users to go around organizations like ICANN and their
> special interest masters. Alternative domain networks, such as
> the Open Root Server Consortium, allow you to see ALL of the
> sites available on the internet, not just the ones that ICANN 
> wants you to see.

> If you are an Internet provider, you can go around ICANN and 
> make the entire internet available to your users in only 2 minutes.

How many root servers? On what continents? Run by who? If you want
anyone to even consider making their business dependent on this
service, you have some heavy convincing to do. Any competent DNS
admin could build a root server in a few hours or, as you say,
set local DNS to point to your root in minutes. Why should they
take that risk?

> Are
> you an internet user whose ISP is still using the ICANN-controlled domain
> name system? A few simple steps is all it takes for you to bypass ICANN and
> see all of the sites on the internet.
> 
> 
> 
> This announcement is sponsored by ADNS, owner and registrar for the
> top level domains EARTH, USA and Z. ADNS is a proud supporter of
> the Open Root Server Consortium.
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