Re: The Internet Way!

[Hank Nussbacher <hank@ibm.net.il>]

At 02:55 AM 7/21/97 -0400, Jay@Iperdome.com wrote:

If you are referring to the iPOC work as the Great World Battle - you have
been smoking some bad weed.  

- iPOC does not discuss or handle any aspect of ISO country code TLDs
- iPOC does not discuss who owns the root or how it should be managed (best
  left to IANA and the NSF)

iPOC merely expands the number of TLDs from the current 3 to many more.  I
suggest everyone get an issue of Network World (June 9) and read the last
page "Net Buzz" entitled "An Alliance Gone Awry".  It goes into detail about
eDNS and Alternic infighting (Denninger and Kashpureff) and says at the end
"All of which makes ISOC and its allies look (choose one or more): a)
reasonable b) responsible c) adult."


>
>We are witnessing a Great World Battle.
>At stake, the future of the entire electronic
>frontier.  The players, many big, multinational
>companies and organizations, and an eclectic handfull 
>of small, entrepreneurial companies.
>
>For maybe the first time in History, the common person 
>can have a direct say in their own future and destiny.  
>
>With the recent announcement of U.S. Gov't involvement
>in the Domain Name Battle, the race has begun, and it
>has an August 18th deadline.  
>
>Between now and then, this battle will be fought on the
>very frontier that it will become, and in the domain of 
>public opinion.  
>
>To prevent any one powerful group or lobby from taking 
>over, it is in the *Internet's* best interest to get news 
>of this battle out to the public. One way to accomplish 
>this is to support informative articles like the recent 
>MSNBC article:
>        http://www.msnbc.com/news/87343.asp
>
>Simply vote this article into the MSNBC Viewer's Top 10.  
>The higher the rating, the more people will read it.  The 
>more people read it, the more coverage this battle will 
>receive.  
>
>So, in the Internet tradition, help get the word out.  
>Vote a "7" for  ===>  http://www.msnbc.com/news/87343.asp 
>
>
>Regards,
>
>Jay Fenello
>President, Iperdome, Inc.  
>404-250-3242  http://www.iperdome.com
>
>
Hank Nussbacher
iPOC member
[The views expressed above are the authors alone and may not reflect
the view of other iPOC members]