Bob Allisat is, I'm sorry to say, a well-known Net-kook. I remember him infesting a bunch of Usenet newsgroups. Now that he appears to be on nanog, the best strategy might be to ignore him.
And Declan, I'm happy to say, has found his place in life as mindless reactionary & smear campaigner. In- stead of addressing any of the real issues he is content and contrite to insult me. The liberty flag Declan McCullagh wraps himself in at every opportunity appears to be a little tattered of late. Actually its no more than a memory alas. What does Declan think of CORE and the Memorandum of understanding? What does he think about requiring new registries to pay non-refundable US $10,000 and requiring a US$300,000 line of credit, five (5) full time staff all of which come out to roughly a half million dollar price tag for new registries? What does the guy think about IODesign's .WEB and Skyscape's .ART registries being confiscated by the IAHC/CORE? And what about Eugene's activities? And how about Declan's thoughts about Jon Postel and his crowd trying to monopolize Internet governance without a shred of public input? We don't hear anything about the issue. Only smear tactics and insults. Adress the issues Declan. We are not all stupid enough to simply dismiss the issues because you say I'm nuts. The issue remain smack in your face. Address them or be quiet in future. TeleVirtually Yours, Bob Allisat Director, World TeleVirtual Network http://www.wtv.net PO Box 191 St E Toronto Canada M6H 4E2 tor@wtv.net (416) 534-1999 http://www.wtv.net/portfolio.html