On Sunday, May 31, 1998 9:10 PM, Adam Todd[SMTP:at§ah.net] wrote: §>The .CC domain is interesting. I tried to contact "Island Internet §>Services" at their Cocos (Keeling) Island address. Telstra Directory §>assistance didn't have a listed number for them, nor could they §>locate "Telecom House". §> <snip> § §Is it worth your time to waste tracking down a domain name? Wouldn't you §be better looking at ways of educating in a generic manner the public to §ensure they aren't ripped off? § In my opinion, it is best to get MORE people involved. In the U.S. Government's IPv4 plan, Jon Postel (aka IANA) is the only one that knows what is going on. That system does not scale. They are now trying to expand that system by surrounding Jon Postel with a group called the ITAG. That approach still does not scale because it does not puch the governance out to the regions where the people are that really care about certain TLDs. In the IPv8 Plan the goal is to identify and track the top 8 people involved with a TLD. Those 8 people are arranged in a 2+2+4 hierarchy or trusteeship. The top 2 people in that group are the delegates to the Round Table or discussions for the TLD governance. As shown below for the .CC TLD, the 8 people can be inserted into the governance structure between 6:155 .UNITED and 6:157 PCN. http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/130dftmail/unir.txt 6:155 UNITED 6:156 CC (COCOS-(KEELING)-ISLANDS) 5 ____________________ 3 ____________________ 6 ____________________ 1 Anderson, Thomas (TA1577) tanderson§NIC.CC 2 Cartmell, Brian (BC936) brc§SPEAKEASY.ORG 7 ___________________ 4 _____________________ 8 ____________________ 6:157 PCN (PITCAIRN) In my opinion, the people in G6 should be focused on developing the database of people that care about all of the TLDs in that region. The only way that is going to happen is if people research the existing information and start to get people interested in "self-governance". Once people have the information and are interested in taking control of their own destiny, they will maintain the information and no central authority or small committee of insiders is needed. The system will scale and can be self-maintaining. This will only happen if people spend more time researching the information and helping people communicate. The .CC TLD situation is a good one to use for a case study. As you will see below, the DNS and whois databases can be used to gather a lot of information that can be used to try to determine who the top 8 people are for the TLD. Based on the information below it looks like Thomas Anderson and Brian Cartmell are two people with a vested interest. Those would be the people that I would suggest provide the other 6 names of the people helping to make the .CC TLD registry into a stable and reliable Internet resource and service. Jim Fleming P.S. The APNIC has reserved many of the names such as CCNIC.NET. Despite people's claims about the APNIC, ARIN and RIPE not being involved with domain names and only IP addresses, we can see this is not the case. Hopefully, that will get sorted out with the U.S. Government's White Paper because the U.S. Government officials were mislead by the claims that IP addresses and domain names are not related. They are clearly related when Internet governance is considered from a global view and a business point of view. This is like savings and loans being related in the Banking Industry. §@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ .CC RESEARCH MATERIAL Cocos (Keeling) Islands top-level domain (CC24-DOM) Island Internet Services Telecom House 6799 CC Domain Name: CC Administrative Contact: Anderson, Thomas (TA1577) tanderson§NIC.CC +61 2 947 50013 (FAX) +61 2 947 50014 Technical Contact, Zone Contact: Cartmell, Brian (BC936) brc§SPEAKEASY.ORG 206.329.7900 Cocos (Keeling) Islands Network Information Center (CCNIC-DOM) Reserved by Asia Pacific NIC Domain Name: CCNIC.NET Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact: Asia Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC) hostmaster§APNIC.NET +81-3-5500-0480 Fax- +81-3-5500-0481 ;; ANSWERS: cc. 172800 NS NS2.GLOBALDNS.COM. cc. 172800 NS NS1.GLOBALDNS.COM. Global DNS (GLOBALDNS2-DOM) 1916 Pike Pl #12-357 Seattle, WA 98101 Domain Name: GLOBALDNS.COM Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact: Cartmell, Brian (BC936) brc§SPEAKEASY.ORG 206.329.7900 Billing Contact: Cartmell, Brian (BC936) brc§SPEAKEASY.ORG 206.329.7900 Speakeasy Cafe (SPEAKEASY2-DOM) 2304 2nd Ave Seattle, WA 98121 US Domain Name: SPEAKEASY.ORG Administrative Contact: Apgar, Mike (MA203) mike§speakeasy.org 206 728-9770 Technical Contact, Zone Contact: Brick, Douglas (DB659) dbrick§SPEAKEASY.ORG 206.728.9770 Billing Contact: Apgar, Mike (MA203) mike§speakeasy.org 206 728-9770 §@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Jim Fleming Unir Corporation - An H.323 GateKeeper for the IPv8 Network http://www.unir.net 0:196 .MALLReceived on Tue Jun 02 1998 - 00:57:59 UTC
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