[ga-roots] Re: [ga] Alternate Root Memo sent to Names Council

[Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org>]

[I'm taking this over to ga-roots.]

On 2001-05-17 15:49:46 +0200, Jefsey Morfin wrote:

>>>Otherwise I will sue you and the iCANN for hacking. i.e. 
>>>imposing data in my machine that I do not want. In a very 
>>>similar way to a cookie.

>>Do you seriously consider a cookie "hacking"?  Something your 
>>software takes from an HTTP header and chooses to stores on your 
>>disk is supposed to be "hacking"?  When are you going to sue, 
>>say, Microsoft for hacking your machine?

>tss, tss, as usual Thomas you object the obvious if I say it: 
>would this be some personnal/national feud?

First, I _strongly_ object against your allegation that I'm pursuing 
a "national feud".  In fact, I'm considering this allegation to be 
insulting.  (And, Jefsey, I'm not pursuing a personal feud, either. 
Are you?)

Second, you don't state "the obvious" - in fact, it's hard to 
understand what you are trying to state.

>The use of the cookie image is not about the intrusion definition 
>(in this case a monopolistic enforcement) but image about the 
>result. It is well established that we are entitled to refuse 
>cookies because we are authoritative as far as what we want on our 
>disks and what we want to disclose. The same way we are entitled 
>to establish an authoritative root on our machine not to 
>receive/give data from certain sites/tlds.

If all this is so obvious, maybe you can explain in simple words 
what precisely the "hacking" you want to sue people for is all 
about?  I really just don't seem to get your point.

>>Surely you are joking...

>I would not dare with you: you might take it seriously :-)

A smiley doesn't make a bad joke better.

>>(To the physicists around: No, I don't believe Jefsey's a 
>>genius. ;-)

>Well, I don't either! Actually my IQ is so low that I do not even 
>understand why you limitate the comment to the physicits? Please 
>fill free to include the chimists and the typists.

It was a pun on book titles: "Surely you are joking, Mr Feynman", 
and "Genius".  The latter is a Feynman biography by James Gleick.

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Thomas Roessler                        http://log.does-not-exist.org/
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