[Am-info] [Fwd: .org]

[Gene Gaines]

Geoffrey et al,

I would suggest looking into this very carefully before
popping off a message of support to IMS - ISC.

There are a number of strange statements in the email
forwarded from Carl Malamud.

I won't take time to counter them here, suffice to say
that I believe he left the bare truth somewhere behind.

Lots of money to be made in a registry!

In thinking you are fighting a monopoly (I suppose he
is refering to Verisign, which I agree is an unhealty
monopoly) you might be playing into the hands of
people whose interest really is other than holding
.org in an open, public trust.  I really, really don't
like what I read in that little email!


Gene
gene.gaines@gainesgroup.com

On Tuesday, July 2, 2002, 5:24:32 PM, Geoffrey wrote:

> Fighting another monopoly...

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: .org
> Resent-Date: Tue,  2 Jul 2002 13:14:08 -0700 (PDT)
> Resent-From: 0xdeadbeef@petting-zoo.net
> Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 13:13:53 -0700
> From: gkm@petting-zoo.net (glen mccready)
> To: 0xdeadbeef@petting-zoo.net


> Forwarded-by: Nev Dull <nev@sleepycat.com>

> IMS has teamed up with Internet Software Consortium (aka Paul Vixie and
> the folks who produce BIND) to try and wrest control of the .org
> registry from VeriSign.  ICANN has it up for bid and all the other
> applicants are various combinations of commercial operators.  We want
> to run .org in the public interest and release all of our code, secure
> the DNS, etc.

> We could really use a public show of support.  Was wondering if you
> might chime in and possibly even try and encourage some of your cohorts
> to chime in?  We think this is a pretty crucial test case on setting up
> a solid public infrastructure for core Internet functions.  The degree
> of public support is one of the selection criteria, so we'd certainly
> appreciate your help.

> Regards,

> Carl Malamud
> Internet Multicasting Service

> Our proposal is at: http://trusted.resource.org/
> Our show-your-support page is at:
> http://not.invisible.net/signals/bin/000055.shtml
> The ICANN process is at: http://www.icann.org/tlds/org/
> The IMS home page is at: http://not.invisible.net/
> ====================================================================





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