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In June 2002, The Internet Multicasting Service and the Internet Software Consortium teamed up to submit a proposal to ICANN to become the .org TLD operator.
At the end of the bidding process, the following 632 comments of support were accounted for at our web site.
In addition to these comments, 389 supporters added a little blue dot to their web sites. Of course,
Googilla kept tracking the dot long after the final tally.
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Subject: Can't think of a better fit!
Posted by Bradley a Wendelboe at 07.02.02 @ 06.26 PM |
IMS+ISC managing the .org. Make it so!
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Subject: Non-profit .org maintainer
Posted by Eric M. Monsler at 07.02.02 @ 06.04 PM |
I truly believe that the only way to get fair stewardship of the .org TLD would be to have it done by a non-profit organization. The IMS/IMC seems to be an organization dedicated to such a role.
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Subject: Very important to the future of innovation on the internet
Posted by Andrew Elmore at 07.02.02 @ 06.00 PM |
I agree, generally, with Lawrence Lessig's argument that the reason that the internet has been such a platform for innovation is its openness, end-to-end. (for more on his arguments, see "The
Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World.")
Opening the .org registry is a great way to promote openness and encourage innovation.
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Subject: .org should be run by a .org and...
Posted by Jack E. Wilkinson at 07.02.02 @ 05.41 PM |
... .org should be kept NON-commercial. there are many (possibly too many) commercial domains available now, so let's start keeping them in the categories for which they were intended.
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Subject: .org as a public
Posted by Sean Berry at 07.02.02 @ 05.15 PM |
I have a couple of .org domains. They're not commercial, nor was .org ever supposed to be. They're for my house, and my extended family. I didn't buy or sell them, I just registered them.
Domain -names- shouldn't be something anyone should need to make money from. They're just the phone book for everything else that matters. Make money on services, make money on content you generate. Make money from customers whom you -sell- something useful to.
Let the non-profits administer the domain, it was designed for them.
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Subject: Aligns with the original intent/success of the 'net
Posted by Nathan Bailey at 07.02.02 @ 04.49 PM |
Isn't one of the fundamental precents of the Internet that a bunch of talented volunteers operating in an open way can produce the best results? RFCs and most of the software that runs the core of the 'net work this way...
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Subject: It's time for a noncommercial entity to administer .ORG
Posted by Jack Royal-Gordon at 07.02.02 @ 04.47 PM |
ICANN has proven over the years that it does not have the public's interest at heart in the administrative duties it performs.
Conversely, IMS and ISC have shown consistently that they put the public's interest ahead of their own monetary concerns.
I have no doubt that they can effectively administer an operation of this magnitude, just as I have no doubt that they will do so in the best interest of the public.
Can ICANN make either of these statements (with a straight face)?
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Subject: Full support for ISC proposal
Posted by James Sears at 07.02.02 @ 04.37 PM |
ISC is the most trustworthy and capable organisation for the future
of the ORG TLD. I fully support the IMS/ISC proposal, and especially
welcome their commitment to DNSSEC and support for IPv6.
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Subject: Let people who love the internet more than the money run .org
Posted by Edward S Blades at 07.02.02 @ 03.50 PM |
These people have already made huge contributions
to how the internet works.
Let them manage part of their labor of love.
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Subject: public interest
Posted by Tom Reingold at 07.02.02 @ 03.06 PM |
Commerce controls quite enough of the Internet these days, and lately, the big players are pushing their standards which, in my view, compete with the public interest. I support the proposal. We stand to lose a national treasure if we don't have a domain designated for the public interest independent of the profit motive.
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Subject: Excellent Proposal
Posted by Tony Aiuto at 07.02.02 @ 03.04 PM |
I think the proposal meets the required criteria and would serve the public better than having a commercial entity run .org
This proposal is blinding obvious: it is correct. The folks involved in this proposal have time and again shown their committment to a free and open internet. I can't think of anyone better to entrust the .org namespace too.
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Ari Gordon-Schlosberg
Internet Technologist
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