Perry E. Metzger wrote:
Geoff White writes:
I'd like you to point out the major corporations and public universities who will do this. I'd also like you to immediately return that nice root server that NSI has paid for in part or whole, if you really believe this.
Anyone trying to take "COM" and point it somewhere else will find that they have created a class-action lawsuit with 1,000,000 plaintiffs -- all the people who you instantly disconnect that have COM domains.
Anyone trying to STEAL NSI's COM zone (to appropriate it as their own) will likely find themselves on the wrong end of a monstrous lawsuit, not to mention potential felony theft charges.
NSI does not own the root domain .com .org .net or any other TLD. They were *hired* by the NSF to manage the registration of domain names for these TLDs, and they have done a deplorable job.
You are, of course, correct.
I will point out that NSI's cooperative agreement with the NSF clearly states that at the end of the agreement, any and all databases or software created under the agreement belong to the government, not to NSI.
Read it for yourself if you don't believe me.
This is interesting Perry. Both InterNIC and IANA are government contracted tasks, and yet you somehow attribute godhood to IANA while relegating NSI to the basement. What gives here? Sounds like favoritism to me. Why should contractor IANA get to keep its power while contractor NSI loses its. What's the law like in Perry's world. Oh, BTW, don't give me any crap about the lordlike actions of IANA personnel and the deplorable actions of NSI, blah, blah, blah. The only thing NSI has truly done that is awful is their TM dispute policy, and the IAHC has taken that very thing under its own wing. So when it comes right down to it, maybe the US government should handle port assignments also. Who knows, perhaps a clerk could handle the admin function of doling out numbers, so we wouldn't have to bother a research scientist with it. Vince Wolodkin Speaking for myself and a lot of other people who are PISSED off at your ridiculous double-speak.
Perry Speaking for myself, and not in an official capacity