Re: Draft New Draft

["William X. Walsh" <william@dso.net>]

Mr Broomfield CONTINUES to take things out of context and make them say things
they never said.

On 09-Feb-99 John Charles Broomfield wrote:
> > I'm happy to see that you're not interested in spreading FUD, since in
> > recent days you've accused the IATLD of being a fake, me of having some
> > economic incentive in promoting and defending the IATLD (why else would the
> > IATLD stand up for ccTLDs in developing regions?), and me of always getting
> > my facts wrong.
> > 
> > It's easy (and a favorite game in these lists) to take a remark out of
> > context and twist it.  Congrats, you can do it too.
> > Antony
>  
>  In the past few days I have battled with you on three blanket subjects
>  which you launched as a given, and I threw a few questions about them
>  which at least prove that it's not as clear cut as you said.
>  
>  -You said that only 2 out of the top 20 ccTLDs had any relationship with
>  their governments, meaning that government involvement in ccTLDs is very
>  minor.
>  I looked up a bunch of "major" ccTLDs and I think it was only Mexico that
>  had NO relationship with the government.

I read your post on this, and you looked for ANY way you could possibly stretch
the work "relation with the government."  It was quite obviously an attempt to
do everything you could do to define a ccTLD's "relation with the government"
even when they clearly did not exist in a formal way.
  
>  -You came out in defence of the iaTLD and of its backing by 73 ccTLDs. I
>  pointed out that this backing was not as clear as it may seem.

No you did not point this out.  You laid a claim (that you unsuccessfully made
when the IATLD was formed) that .GP's admin contact did not support RFC1591. 
You had to stretch this so far to say that people answer emails by reading only
the subject, and that the body of the email is "the small print" and not
expected to be read before someone sends in an answer. 
  
>  -You gave a listing of 5 ccTLDs in a way that seemed to imply that they were
>  private for-profit systems, and that you had another sixty-something like
>  them. It was clear that those listed were not as clear-cut for-profit
>  companies as you made out.

No he didn't.  He listed >>5<< ccTLDs that permit ANYONE globally to process
registrations.  He NEVER implied that there were private for-profit systems,
and was mentioning them because you implied that any ccTLD that was doing that
was being irresponsible.  Antony pointed out that of the 60+ ccTLDs that do
that, 5 of them were amongst the largest.
  
>  When you try to back your arguments of government exclusion based on the
>  "fact" that they are not in general aware/involved anyway, that your system
>  is backed by a lot of ccTLDs and you argue about how good it is for
>  registries to be for profit because so many of them are
>  
>  When you try to back your arguments of government exclusion (based on the
>  "fact" that they are not in general aware/involved anyway), about how good
>  it
>  is for registries to be for profit (because so many of them are), and that
>  there is wide support by many ccTLDs of these proposals (because of the
>  iaTLD), then it stats to look to me as if there are unpleasant things
>  happening. If your arguments can't stand up on their own merits and need to
>  be backed by not-quite-as-they-seem "facts", then maybe it's because they
>  CAN'T stand up on their own merit. Dunno.

Actually, it seems as if your criticisms are the one having a hard time
standing up on their own merit, as they have no basis whatsoever in fact.

I have pointed this out time and time again, and you ignore those arguments,
choosing only to answer small insignificant parts and snipping the rest from 
your responses.

It says a lot about the veracity of your claims, and about your character, that
you continue to make these criticisms despite your knowledge that they are
false.

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E-Mail: William X. Walsh <william@dso.net>
Date: 09-Feb-99
Time: 12:15:47
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