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A Further Look Into ORSN

• Comment posted Oct 12, 2005 8:02 am PDT — by Markus Grundmann
  Dear Milton Mueller. From my side I think we close now this thread. Sorry for some words of me but I can't hear any more sayings like "ORSN is bad. Evil on Earth. Split XYZ" ... We want an internet…

• Comment posted Oct 11, 2005 6:32 am PDT — by Markus Grundmann
  @Juan: I do not have other reaction expect and I have only written which happened.

• Comment posted Oct 10, 2005 9:44 pm PDT — by Markus Grundmann
  ORSN is using the original IANA root zone (unmodified) so long no users outside the U.S.A are limited by the DoC. If you really want that the DoC controls biz world wide by removing/changing ccTLD information??? I didn't want this.…

Why I Am Participating in the ORSN Project

• Comment posted Oct 10, 2005 9:20 pm PDT — by Markus Grundmann
  I founded ORSN back in 2002, even if i could hardly imagine that a TLD will ever be removed from the root zone by the DoC. However, there is still a chance that this may happen and therefore ORSN is absolutely right to continue offering its services to the internet. To put it politely: ORSN is protest against the ICANN. It’s not bearable that a government can make modifications without others supervising it. Don’t forget that today’s internet is a “child” of the USA and you always want to keep control of your children, don’t you? But children grow up and one day, the DoC has to let this child go. Personally, i haven’t been in USA yet and got my (limited) knowledge of the people and the country solely from internet and TV. But seeing the arbitrariness of the US government’s decisions, i’m getting angry. What i mean is that i’m more pro USA than i’m against it. But i can’t accept it when such an important media like the internet is controlled by a single government, who classifies everyone else as a part of an “axis of evil” only because opinions or interests differ. If at one day the ICANN (or its successor) will become an international organization, then i’ll say: “No one needs ORSN anymore and i’ll gladly cease the project - given that all the other operators agree.” We never had the a doubt that the technical infrastructure of ICANN/IANA is sufficient. ANYCAST also improved the root system technically. But it’s still a collective whose roots are in the DoC. Even an ANYCAST with thousands of instances thoughout the world doesn’t help here. A tree with a rotten root can’t have green leafs (however, no one seems to have noticed that yet). I welcome the activities of Paul Vixie and i hope that ORSN will work out many ideas and solutions together with Paul. Therefore, i regard his membership as non political. Regards, Markus