Re: [ga-roots] Edelman's report on BIZ

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 06:58:14PM -0400, Milton Mueller wrote:
> Ben:
> 
> It's good to have a fact-based discussion of the .biz problem.
> 
> The picture of the ARNI registrations is a very valuable
> contribution to our understanding of the issue. It provides some
> basis for discussing the relationship between the ICANN process
> and the claims established outside of it.
> 
> Your treatment of the facts, however, is incomplete 
> and borders on the selective in certain respects.
> 
> To begin with, you start your history with the ICANN TLD process.
> It is well known that the .BIZ top-level domain was first proposed,
> and operated, by Karl Denninger some time in 1996.
> No accurate treatment of this problem can ignore the historical
> context from which the debate over alternate roots emerged.
> 
> There is a record, I believe, of a transaction between Leah Gallegos
> and Denniger to take over rights to .Biz.

I doubt that very much:

    "Denninger said he expanded the concept to allow automated dot-biz
    domain name registrations in 1995, and his company, Macro Computer
    Systems, was sold in 1998 to Winstar Communications. 

    He says ORSC changed from pointing to Winstar's list of dot-biz
    names to Alantic Root Network's in the last year.  "The problem is
    that (Gallegos') claim to this is no more legitimate than JV Team's. 
    I would argue that neither of them has a legitimate claim,"
    Denninger says. 

    from http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,40301,00.html

> Your report makes it seem
> as if Neulevel invented the proposed TLD and that it was first
> broached in the ICANN TLD process. This gives the impression
> that Gallegos simply skimmed ICANN proposals and imitated 
> the Neulevel proposal. 

Yes, it sure looks that way.

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Kent Crispin                               "Be good, and you will be
kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain
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