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RE: [ga-roots] Re: [icann-eu] Letter to Dr. Vint Cerf
- To: "Kent Crispin" <kent@songbird.com>, "List Admin" <patrick@corliss.net>, "Thomas Roessler" <roessler@does-not-exist.org>
- Subject: RE: [ga-roots] Re: [icann-eu] Letter to Dr. Vint Cerf
- From: "Gene Marsh" <marshm@anycast.net>
- Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 21:32:40 -0400
- Cc: "[ga-roots]" <ga-roots@dnso.org>, <icann-europe@fitug.de>
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- In-Reply-To: <20010509124923.B20594@songbird.com>
- Sender: owner-icann-europe@fitug.de
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ga-roots@dnso.org [mailto:owner-ga-roots@dnso.org]On Behalf
> Of Kent Crispin
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 3:49 PM
> To: List Admin; Thomas Roessler
> Cc: [ga-roots]; icann-europe@fitug.de
> Subject: Re: [ga-roots] Re: [icann-eu] Letter to Dr. Vint Cerf
<SNIP>
> In fact there are numerous other possibilities for sources of
> contamination. For example -- I go to a conference and hook up my
> laptop to the ISP providing connectivity to the conference. I am
> required to use their smtp server; it uses some set of roots I never
> heard of... Or: My employer uses an ISP under one root zone, I have a
> personal account at a different ISP. My ISP decides that it is going to
> support a new root zone, with a different version of the TLD in
> question. Why would an ISP do that? Because it gets a customer request
> to host a web site in a new TLD?
>
<SNIP>
Right. So why would ICANN knowingly and willingly create such a situation
when the TLD is already operational?
Gene...