Re: [ga-roots] How the sky might fall

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 09:11 PM 6/5/01 -0700, you wrote:

Yes. ;-) InterNIC has always been government funded. Now it belongs to DoC. 
The domain-policy@lists.internic.net archive is public record. You won't 
have to fight very hard. Whether you will be able to get a copy of the 
archive after last August will be up to DoC/NSI. See below for the 
transition from InterNIC to Netsol last year:

>Date:         Tue, 8 Aug 2000 16:52:26 -0400
>Reply-To: "Gomes, Chuck" <cgomes@NETSOL.COM>
>Sender: Owner-Domain-Policy <owner-domain-policy@internic.net>
>From: "Gomes, Chuck" <cgomes@NETSOL.COM>
>Subject:      Termination of Internic email address
>X-To:         "domain-policy@lists.netsol.com" 
><domain-policy@lists.netsol.com>
>To: DOMAIN-POLICY@LISTS.INTERNIC.NET
>
>Effective sometime after 6 p.m. this evening, the email addresses
><domain-policy@internic.net> or <domain-policy@lists.internic.net> will no
>longer be operational.  Please use the email address
><domain-policy@lists.netsol.com>.
>
>The email address <domain-policy@netsol.com> does not currently work.  I
>will notify the list if and when this changes.
>
>Chuck Gomes


>I don't get it Mr. Higgs,
>
>Are you suggesting I fight my way through the the federal bureaucracy to 
>get the
>list.
>
>Or do you suggest I buy from un unscrupoulous pirate :--}
>
>Eric
>Simon Higgs wrote:
>
> > At 08:34 PM 6/5/01 -0700, you wrote:
> >
> > The Netsol domain-policy list was originally sponsored by InterNIC. At
> > least until Netsol changed the list to run under "netsol.com", i.e. while
> > the list was domain-policy@internic.net, the list was public record. Any
> > government-funded public mailing list archive is subject to FOIA.
> >
> > >Joanna I could be wrong here but let me suggest:
> > >
> > >There was great consternation at the time of upheaval which no one speaks
> > >of in
> > >Mr. Postel's death, I should say Dr. Postel, there were decisions made 
> which
> > >had to do with root zone servers and the running of the US ccTLD, IPv6 
> was an
> > >horizon which eventually cost 70 million bucks but needs to be stepped
> > >over, to
> > >IPv8 or posssibly IPv16.  There was a route taken which was forced 
> upon our
> > >great Icon which he really did not want to take, but power won out and
> > >probably
> > >hence his death.
> > >
> > >Why do you think that such matters are only revered and not talked 
> about?  Do
> > >you think the reason for unplugging the great Domain Name Policy 
> NetSol list
> > >were matters that were revealed recently?  No it is the archive of history
> > >that
> > >sets these giants back and Mr. Morfin and Williams and Sotiris and
> > >Muelller and
> > >Ms Rony and even Vint Cerf were there and they were unable to stop 
> that which
> > >they foresaw as the rejection of Stakeholder representativeness.
> > >
> > >Damn Shame say I, but I am glad to have spent three days reading those
> > >archives
> > >before they were stolen.
> > >
> > >I am greatly saddened by our loss!
> > >
> > >Eric.
> > >Joanna Lane wrote:
> > >
> > > > on 6/5/01 8:18 PM, Jefsey Morfin at jefsey@wanadoo.fr wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Let admit the DoC - not warned by the BoD about the routing risks
> > > > > accepts the second .biz. What do you think will happen? IMHO
> > > > > something similar to what happened to Jon Postel when he
> > > > > unpluged the root. .us will not like it and will report.
> > > >
> > > > Jefsey,
> > > > I understand the first sentence of this paragraph, but not the 
> rest. Please
> > > > explain.
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Joanna
> > > >
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> > Best Regards,
> >
> > Simon Higgs
> >
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> >
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Best Regards,

Simon Higgs

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