IMS Signals

Time To Organize @ ICANNwatch

switch the dot

A little comic relief @ userfriendly.org

Gentlemen, I called this meeting because we're feeling the effects of a diminished economy. We need a way to generate money so we can survive this slump...

.org Reality Check

Malamud and Vixie's bid to run .org @ oreillynet

Carl Malamud's perplexity over why the "technical due diligence" on the various bids to ICANN resulted in no actual followup makes an interesting read. It's a real shame that, as usual, insider strings and the money trail will likely decide even this small part of the domain system. It's really a shame to see internet pioneers being shut out of the future of the net without even the courtesy of a good reason.

More About The .org Reassignment @ /.

More About The .org Reassignment

Org bidders respond to evaluation @ ICANNwatch

ICANN has published the .org bidders comments regarding the Preliminary Staff Report...here are some particularly interesting quotes from the comments submitted...

ICANN disses the dot @ MeFi

ICANN disses the the dot. The guy who runs the Internet Multicasting Service teamed up with the guy who runs the Internet Software Consortium and submitted a proposal to mange the .ORG registry. ICANN's conslutants [sic] dumped on the proposal claiming it is among the worst proposals from a technical standpoint. Mind you, ISC produces the software that runs the DNS and actually operates root and top-level servers. And ICANN thinks they lack the technical mojo? Wow! Are we all ready to admit that ICANN is completely corrupt and beyond saving?

Dear Sirs...

"Formal" comments of "Internet Mail Service" and "Internet Mail Consortium" on .org Preliminary Evaluation Report posted at ICANN site.

IP: an interchange on Afilias -- Old Internet Thinking RIP @ IP

Well ... we don't really know that Afilias is a well-established registry operator, do we? Do they meet their SLAs? Does their code conform with the EPP spec? How's internal performance? Are security procedures really in place?There are no public studies by reputable sources that have examined the technical performance of the Afilias registries and I certainly don't see any public facilities available that allow me to make that assessment.The paper trail stops. I can't do technical due diligence and it is pretty clear that nobody doing the .org evaluations did any due diligence. That may be appropriate for pitching a .com business plan or writing an OSI standard, but it isn't my understanding of how you run a public service on the Internet.

Comments on .Org @ icann.Blog

Yesterday was the deadline for comments on ICANN's Preliminary Staff Report on the .Org Reassignment. Comments received yesterday should be posted here soon. In the meantime, you can read IMS's take on the report, now available from its web site.

Old Internet Thinking RIP @ ICANNwatch

Carl Malamud, one of the sponsors of the IMS proposal for .org, has posted his response to ICANN's tentative decision to give .org to an as yet non-existent body to be created somehow or other by its good friends at ISOC. The essay demonstrates why IMS's hopes, and the rest of us probably, are doomed.

.org Coloring Contest

BOGSATT = Bunch Of Guys Sitting Around The Table.

John Gilmore and Maddog Hall discuss .ORG bids @ /.

TreyHarris writes "Over on SAGEwire, we have posted an email exchange between John Gilmore (EFF cofounder) and Jon "maddog" Hall (Executive Director, Linux International) about the .ORG bids. It's a fascinating read, and goes much further into depth about the issues than I've seen on any news site thus far."

Clarification of eGrants.org intention

On behalf of eGrants.org, I wish to clarify the intention of our support letters