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Whackos.. ! Where..?! Can't see no pesky whackos, nope sir, all normal people here. > Paul, you have no problem support the corrupt ICANN monopoly. > The colonists and minutemen were called their day's name for > "whackos" as well. You have the right to speak without > being shot for your opinion because those "whackos" fought > and died to make it so. Just remember that the next time > you fling that word around. > > ICANN is a threat to freedom on the internet. There is no > technical reason why there cannot be 1,000's of TLDs > out there, except that it foils someone's monopoly > stranglehold on one of the few chokepoints of the internet. > The biggest threat is from WIPO which is trying to > control the namespace and use it as a fulcrum to > enforce their narrow intellectual property interests. > WIPO has no place in the namespace and its UDRP > is just a method for rich and powerful interests to > steal domains from poor people, especially those in > less-than-well-to-do countries. I will never stop > fighting against that kind of thing, nor will others > in this struggle. > > There are many people who have been working against > this unacceptable state of affairs for many years, myself > included and I will not let you mis-characterize our > struggle. > > John Palmer > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Paul Vixie" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 12:22 > Subject: Re: [IP] VeriSign prepares to relaunch "Site Finder" -- calls > > > > > > [email protected] (Randall Pigott) writes: > > > > > I am curious what the operational impact would be to network operators > > > if, instead of Verisign using SiteFinder over all com and net, Verisign > > > or their technology partner for SiteFinder began coercing a large number > > > of independent ISPs and network operators to install their form of DNS > > > redirection at the ISP-level, until all or most of the end-users out > > > there were getting redirected. > > > > It would be no worse than NEW.NET or any other form of DNS pollution/piracy > > (like the alternate root whackos), as long as it was clearly labelled. As > > an occasional operator of infrastructure, I wouldn't like the complaint load > > I'd see if the customers of such ISP's thought that *I* was inserting the > > garbage they were seeing. So I guess my hope is, it'll be "opt-in" with an > > explicitly held permission for every affected IP address (perhaps using some > > kind of service discount or enhancement as the carrot.) > > -- > > Paul Vixie > > > > >
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