Re: [wg-c] Eureka?

[dwmaher@ibm.net]

I have apologized to Chris Ambler.
Back to the merits of the controversy:
 1.We are still waiting for a explanation of what NSI plans to do when
it takes its 5.2 million customers elsewhere. You say it's a "metaphor".
For what?  You suggested the superroot. If you have a further
explanation, is it consistent with ICANN's well-thought out plan for a
consensus based organization of the address, protocol and domain name
functions, or does it assume the destruction of ICANN?
2. NSI has done everything in its power to block the successful
implementation of the shared registry tests, including unreasonable
charges for its services, an unreasonably burdensome agreement with the
registrars, and the attempt, from which it was forced to back down by US
government pressure, to establish a proprietary "yellow pages" which
would have greatly increased its competitive advantage.
3. We all know that NSI wants to see ICANN fail. It is clearly in NSI's
financial interest to bring this about. Assuming there is some rational
basis for NSI's statment of taking 5.2 million customers elsewhere, can
this basis be explained in some way that is consistent with the survival
of ICANN, or is it simply a manoeuvre to hasten ICANN's failure?

A.M. Rutkowski wrote:

>  At 07:36 PM 8/10/99 , dwmaher@ibm.net wrote:
>
>> Perhaps you can give us a fuller explanation of how NSI plans to
>> "take our
>> customers " all 5.2 million of them " and go elsewhere."
>> If superroot (Ambler and Fenello) is the plan, then I'm really
>> worried.
>
>
> Hi David,
>
> As Chris Ambler notes, you minimally need to go to
> the citations and read the material.
>
> The "go elsewhere" comment I expect was a metaphor.
> There are now 57 registrars plus CORE's 61 more
> feeding into the COM, ORG, and NET registry.
> It's great to see NSI's plan for a competitive
> registry-registrar arrangement so successful.
>
> The DNS is a distributed database system, and the
> COM, ORG, and NET zones are a big, stable, part
> of the system.  Those zone files can stay exactly
> where they are.  Anyone interested in reaching
> them, will find a way to get there. ;-)
>
> To use Sienfeldese, that's a big Matzoh Ball
> hanging out there.  I don't think ICANN, DOC,
> or anyone else will fracture it.
>
>
> --tony