RE: Re[2]: [ga-roots] Re: [icann-eu] Letter to Dr. Vint Cerf

["Dassa" <dassa@dhs.org>]

|> -----Original Message-----
|> From: NameCritic [mailto:watch-dog@inreach.com]
|> Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 5:53 AM
|> To: ga-roots@dnso.org
|> Cc: dassa@dhs.org
|> Subject: Re: Re[2]: [ga-roots] Re: [icann-eu] Letter to Dr. Vint Cerf
|>
|> >
|> > This highlights one of the problems I have with the so called
|> > "alternative"/"competitive" roots.  Here we clearly have individuals
|> > dictating what users will be able to resolve.  Without any true
community
|> > input or participation.
|> >
|> > I still consider calling them "private" roots is the most descriptive
and
|> > accurate term.  They are not true community mechanisms.
|>
|> HEY! That sounds just like ICANN. What makes you think ICANN is not
doing
|> that very same thing by not including the "private, cooperative,
altenate
|> roots"?
|>
|> They are deciding what will resolve for people and they have no true
bottom
|> up consensus on ANYTHING they do. That is exactly why we're here. You
|> pointed it out very well. Thanks.

ICANN does have community input and I would far rather abide by decisions
from ICANN than I would from an individual who decided to set up a private
root and make it routable on the Internet.  Private name spaces do not
belong in the Internet routable name space.  End of story.

Darryl (Dassa) Lynch.

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