Re: Hyperbole Fervor Distorts Serious Reporting and Discussion about gTLDs

[Jay@Iperdome.com]

At 01:23 AM 11/16/97 -0800, Dave Crocker wrote:
>What is truly perplexing is that once we get past the excited language
>describing my note we don't see any discussion of the content.  My note
>said that we are approaching a crisis moment and that there are some things
>to do to try to avoid it, such as making sure that a project schedule is
>publicly known and that other countries with an interest in this topic
>should make themselves known to the US government. 


The crisis to which you refer is the proverbial line in the sand:
It is the moment that the IANA requests NSI to add the seven new
IAHC gTLDs.  


>Forgive me but I'm
>having a hard time understanding what is newsworthy, much less outrageous,
>about this. 


Dave,

For many months, IAHC supporters have been making statements like:

At 05:12 PM 4/12/97 -0700, Dave Crocker wrote:
>	IANA dictates the contents of the root servers.  The operators of
>the root servers follow IANA dictates and have stated they will follow IANA
>in this matter.

You have just admitted in a private posting (forgive me, *NOT* 
private ;-) that the U.S. Government and Network Solutions have 
the ability to prevent your seven new gTLDs from being entered 
in the root.  

What your "having a hard time understanding" is that your prior 
comments and arrogant attitude towards anyone who questioned 
those comments were in fact outrageous.  I suspect that the new 
CORE registries will be very upset about what appears to be 
misleading comments about the likelihood of this occurrence.  

But then again, maybe that's why they had to sign away any
rights to recourse before sending in their $10,000.


Regards,

Jay Fenello
President, Iperdome, Inc.  
404-250-3242  http://www.iperdome.com