Statements against new.net?

Fri Mar 16 13:37:21 UTC 2001

Stoned koala bears drooled eucalyptus spit in awe as Patrick Greenwell 
exclaimed:

> Perhaps you might like to define "cooperating" for us? Has ICANN
> cooperated with the individuals and organizations that currently run
> alternate TLDs which predate the existence of ICANN? Or is it
> rather simply that "might makes right" and they only need to cooperate
> with "people that matter?"

I cannot say that I agree wholeheartedly with ICANN's decision making 
process.  However, New.Net's way of creating new TLDs is *not* the way to 
do it!  Furthermore, attempting to circumvent ICANN and the current DNS 
system is *not* going to get New.Net any brownie points with them, and most 
certainly isn't going to help get new TLDs established in the proper DNS 
root.

Besides, why can't you face the fact that this isn't some rebellion against 
ICANN?  It's nothing more than a money scam.  I seriously doubt that 
New.Net or it's investors care about ICANN or it's politics.  Somebody got 
an idea, saw dollar signs, and the marketroids went wild.  This kind of 
greed, IMNSHO, contributes largely to the poor performance of dotcom/tech 
stocks currently.

If the marketroids are going to have this level of control over the 
technical aspects of the Internet, why don't we all just march over to the 
marketing department, hand them our root and enable passwords, and tell 
them, "Ok, you created this mess, now run the fscking thing yourself!" and 
take a _long_ vacation?

Jeff

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"...and the burnt fool's bandaged finger goes wobbling back to the
fire." -Joe Zeff in the SDM.