Re: [ga] Alternate Root Memo sent to Names Council
Dear Jeff, this document of yours is not without interest. It mainly shows how weak is your position and how tough it will be for you to play your part in the iCANN manipulation of yours you have provoqued? 1) you first play only on the word authoritative in a totally wrong way as the authoritative is the one who tells the IP address. But let assume this new meaning, it is quite dangerous as I will respond "the authoritative root for *my* machine is he one *I* chose". 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. BTW this word is poor for you: if the root is authoritative it is on other roots. These other roots are therefore known accepted and cared about. They belong to the DNS system 2) then you say you don't take away the ".biz" business of ARNI. This might be true should you be able to produce two evidences; - that you give your head to cut that the DNS will never be modified in the centuries to come. - that you give your head to cut that the real network as it is built by thousands of ISPs will *never* permit that, all its components working well, a mail sent to a host under your bis.biz will *never* reach a host under the same domain name under .biz. (and you put that as a notice on your site). I asked Vint why he decided not to warn the DoC about that risk. He chose not to reply. I think this is your best protection when collision problem will arise. Tell that Vint said there will never be. And quote your today letter as a testimony you believed in his word today. 3) You come through the lengthy iCANN process to chose you. You forget that this process was to be a "proof of concept" and that your proposition - cf. other iCANN docs, multiple authorized comments and lack of claim in your own documents - has no new concept, except one. This is that you chose to apply for an existing TLD in real operation (actually one of the most active). You though that iCANN could be interested in using you against the alternative roots. And the iCANN took it. Bravo! But how long. You are going to invest on disputed grounds. You are just a market test for the iCANN and a tool. You probably foresaw that in your business plan, hiring more lawyers than techies. You also want to fight the DNSO/IPC people (good luck). This will make the head lines. Good advertizing you think. Fighting on several fronts together, so you may hide your loss on one behind a victory on another. May be a good plan, but please do not speak about stability :-) 4) Another weakness of your document is that you base most of your argumentation on the iCANN. Authoritative root (I love that new word to define the root authoritative on my PC !). Authoritative in choosing new TLDs: poor iCANN which will not be able to pick .usa if they wish? - dangerous as you do not know what will be the iCANN one year from now. - you will provide no defense to iCANN against non iCANN yet legacy TLDs (I suggest you read RFCs carefully). Louis Touton will be sorry for that.... - how will you relate with Chinese people? 5) There is nowever a very interesting development for which we should all thank you. This is the very good compendium on the fact that a TLD cannot be protected. Very good indeed. If I read you correctly: .web could not pretend that another .web had no right to use .web. Because the Judge said: "who gave you the right you claim?" All you document says: "I have that right because the iCANN gave it to me (or the DoC)!" Great. But who gave the right to them first? Since no right can be established on a TLD.... Since you demonstrate it. 6) you have a set of minor points of lesser interest: you make a salad mix of them. Some might be of interest to discuss for fun. Endless disputes.. Frankly two three years from now, I am afraid this piece of hard work will be used as an example of the 2001 iCANN philosophy oddities. Why not just to make a deal with Leah ("the first biz in .biz"). You would then be quoted as the cute one who tricked the iCANN. You lend he trap, they took the bait, and you got the day. You would be the first alternative/legacy TLD. (BTW this may be what you call authoritative.... ! :-) ) Cheers. Jefsey On 15:02 15/05/01, Neuman, Jeff said: All,
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