Re: [ga] John Baxter says the INS is here. Indeed it is.

["John Palmer" <jpalmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Let me address this Thomas Baxter issue:

Tom came to me several months ago and asked if I knew anything about
the TLDA and if I could help him get his TLD into the root networks. I told
him all that I knew about the TLDA and its good and bad  (mostly due to 
Joe Baptista) points.

About the same time that he contacted me, I was thinking about setting up
a "backstop" root network because I realized that the INS only had one real
root running, that is public-root.com (see Joe, I remembered the dash this
time). 

I agreed to host his TLDs for the time being, so that he would qualify for 
membership in the TLDA, but that he would have to sign a registry agreement
with AWI and become and INRS registry if he wanted to populate his TLD 
with more than just the bare-bones SOA and NS records.  Since then, he 
has decided not to join the TLDA, but I will still host his TLDs for the time
being. 

I've also set up worldroot.net and have populated it with the latest zone file
from public-root. This root is intended as a backstop in case something
happens to the public-root itself. I don't intent on editing the zone file
unless there are name server errors. If anyone sees errors, please let me
know by using the webform at worldroot.net. 

This root is not compliant with the RFC's regarding root operations. Compliance
costs too much money and I've already spent all that I'm going to out of my
pocket over the last 10 years in this endeavour. 

If someone wants it to be compliant, poney up the cash to host it in secure
data centers and do all of the other things required by the RFCs. Till then,
it is what it is. 

If and when the TLDA gets the Taproot done, I'll be glad to substitute that
for the current zone file. I have no interest in spending time ruling on the
validity of TLDs within the root zone. 

Regarding Joe's comments about Tom and I:

Apparently, Joe decided that we must be one  in the same person. We are not.
I have visted Tom when I was in his area (Allentown) on client business. He
runs a little computer repair shop out of the living room of his row house on 
Tilghman St. to make ends meet..

He volunteers at the local school (Trexler Middle School on 15th St), teaching 
computer skills to 
kids and adults alike. He is kind of hard to understand sometimes with his
thick Slavic accent (he grew up in the Czeck Republic) but he is a good person,
volunteering in a community that needs alot of help (Allentown's economy has
been depressed for years after the steel mills closed). 

He is very much real - sorry Joe, your paranoia is relegated to the tin-foil 
hat zone. 
(as is much of everything else you say).

My Relationship with Herman Xennt:

I agreed to host a root server in the public-root several years ago, before 
Joe's
destructive path across Europe. 

I have not received any monies from Herman, INIAC or any other groups associated
with them. I have paid them nothing. I have no formal agreement with them. 

I have never met Herman nor anyone else associated with Public-root, INAIC or 
any
affiliated organizations. 

I have never spoken to Herman on the phone nor anyone else associated with 
Public-root, 
INAIC or any other affiliated organization. 

I have received 6 email's from Herman Xennt since 2005, mostly regarding 
operational
issues regarding the public-root, since I do run the G root on that network. 

Bottom line: I have no relationship, financial or otherwise with Xennt, INAIC 
or other
affiliated organizations other that that I run the G root. 

Get over it, Joe.

Now on to Joe's "Expertise":

You need to be careful about what information Joe gives you. You have to 
understand
that Joe destroyed the best (and probably last) good chance that the Inclusive 
TLD 
industry had when we he went off the deep end in 2005 regarding some perceived 
wrong-doings that had taken place with public-root.com (Sorry Joe, we all make 
type-o's,
thats not a capital offense). 

Joe managed to single-handedly snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and in 
the end
cost many TLD operators, some of whom (like myself) have been investing in our 
registry businesses for 10 years, hundreds of thousands of dollars and dashing 
the hopes
of others who are trying to make ends meet.

People like Leah Gallegos whose business product (.BIZ) was stolen from her by 
ICANN
and now has to take another blow when her other TLD properties were rendered 
effectivly
worthless by Joe's actions in Europe in 2005.

In early 2007, Joe decided to attempt to mis-use the TLDA name for his own 
twisted purposes.
The TLDA had been dormant for several years and I was stuck with maintianing 
the infrastructure
(paying for the domains, hosting the nearly-empty e-mail lists), etc. I was the 
last elected 
Board Chairperson, and so I moved to protect the TLDA reputation from Joe's 
taint. 

Anyways, a big fight ensued and I finally gave up anything to to with the 
organization last 
October. I still maintain the domains (TLDA.NET, TLDA.ORG) and will hand them 
over
to a worthty successor (rule 1: They must denounce Joe Baptista and ban him 
forever
from the organization or else they don't get the domains). 

The TLDA re-organized in January 2007 under Georgia law and just recently had 
their
first election of officers under the new charter. I am NOT a member now, and 
have nothing
to do with the TLDA. Its best if I stay away and let others carry the burden 
for awhile -
I served 6 years, its time for others to step up now.


Now as to Tom's comment about Karl:

Tom, Karl Peters has been a great advocate for the INS and if anyone can 
kick-start the TLDA
he can. He is not a bad guy like Joe is. I only wish that he would see Joe for 
the destructive
person he is and denounce him and dissassoiate himself from Joe. 

Sorry to be so long winded, but the record needs setting straight as it always 
does after an
unpleaant bout of Baptistherria.


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: chris@xxxxxx 
  To: Thomas Baxter ; ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 11:54 AM
  Subject: Re: [ga] John Baxter says the INS is here. Indeed it is.


  I have to tell you Thomas that when I wanted to learn more about what were 
then called by many, alt roots, Joe spent time to explain everything to me as 
did many others. So as far as whether Joe is helpful or not, I would say very 
helpful. He is straight to the point and doesn't have patience for people who 
are not being real about it though. Maybe that was the problem?

  Chris McElroy, NameCritic, Inc.
  http://www.seoserviceprovider.com/seoblog

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Thomas Baxter 
    To: ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 12:04 PM
    Subject: Re: [ga] John Baxter says the INS is here. Indeed it is.


    Before, I thought you had good ideas for the I.N.S, mr Baptista, but I see 
now that you are
    part of the problem. Doing personal attacks like below solves no problems 
and all it does is
    give people a bad taste in their moths for the I.N.S.

    Sad, you and Karl at the TLDA both playing the same game with calling me 
palmer and calling
    palmer Baxter. 

    My opinion is that the TLDA is corrupt and not worth mentioning. The 
industry is rudderless, crooked
    TLDA and monpoly icann is all we have. 

    Of all the people I have met in the I.N.S, only Palmer helped me with  my 
TLD name servers. Too
    bad there is only one of him (in spite of joes contentions) - we need more 
people to be helpful
    like that instead of people calling others names and always fighting.

    Thoms


    ----- Original Message ----
    From: Joe Baptista <baptista@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    To: John Palmer <jpalmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    Cc: ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 10:02:03 AM
    Subject: [ga] John Baxter says the INS is here. Indeed it is.

    John Baxter (or is that Palmer) - your new found nerviness concerns me.  I 
appreciate your support for the inclusive name space.  However the fact that 
you have been actively involved with an organization that has misrepresented 
the inclusive name space, bothers me. An organization that is run by one Herman 
Xennt, an associate of yours, who is currently under investigation by the very 
people you praise.  This concerns me.

    One of the nice things about the inclusive name space is that unlike ICANN 
it is community based.  And any fraud such as the type you have been associated 
with is quickly dealt with.  So maybe this new found support of yours has 
something to do with repentance?


    On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 12:01 PM, John Palmer 
<jpalmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


      Yes, the ugly saga of ICANN. You know, the Inclusive Namespace is out 
there
      still, with roots

    Incorrect.  There  is an inclusive name space zone file published at least 
once per week.  However there is no official inclusive name space root or 
roots.  There are roots that claim to be inclusive name space compliant, but 
they all more or less fail testing.
      


      such as publicroot.com and worldroot.net and organizations like TLDA (just
      restarted, I hear)

    Lets hope this is not the beginning of another Baxter fraud.  As far as I 
know there is no root at publicroot.com.  I think you meant public-root.com 
where you are the G root operator.

    http://public-root.com/g-root.htm

    This root which is properly known as INAIC - www inaic.com - is under 
investigation by the TLDA, and the Dutch Public Prosecutors office,  if not 
others.  I don't think this is a good root for you to recommend to recommend 
and claim in any way they are an inclusive name space root.  At this time the 
TLDA has not ruled on them nor certified those roots.

    I will be opposed to certification because there are serious ethics issues 
with the people you provide root service too.  Lets consider this 
recommendation of Mr. Palmers a conflict of interest.

    Now worldroot.net is an run by the same Mr. Palmer who is recommending it.  
The worldroot.net I suspect is either a project just of Mr. Palmer's.  Its a 
private root of Mr. Palmer's.  I am concerned it is an attempt to brand a new 
root for his friend Herman Xennt to continue defrauding people.  I'm going to 
assume Mr. Palmer is genuine about the worldroot.net.

    But let us not forget John that you created a TLD in the worldroot recently 
called .BAX which is associated with a bogus administrator.  Recently we 
uncovered that you Mr. John Palmer were Mr. Thom Baxter and you attempted to be 
a member of the TLDA using a false identity.

    This was wrong.  John was shamed before the community, and appropriately 
so, for participating in the fraudulent sale of TLDs.  Just being associated 
with the fraudsters in the Netherlands is enough to sink any respect the 
community had for John.  But creating a false identity to gain entry into the 
TLDA was unethical.

    And from a technical perspective the worldroot.net root system fails 
compliance tests.  The root John runs is based on the INAIC.com root, which 
fails inclusive name space compatibility.

    People - if any of you want to join the inclusive name space the only place 
to do it is at www.tldainc.org - thats where the community is.  Thats where the 
people power that is the new internet is at.


      For all the griping about ICANN, I don't see many folks who are 
complaining
      about them come
      over and assist the INS institutions in gaining greater use and viability.

    You should come out of exile.  A lot has change since you were associated 
with the TLDA.
     
      Remember, we are still out here and have always been ready to serve as an
      alternative to
      ICANN. Perhaps those who want to see alternatives should come over and 
help.

    But be careful who you trust.  The inclusive name space is the new wild 
west of the internet.  Be careful of false peddlers of name space.  Is that not 
correct Mr. Baxter.

    regards
    joe baptista







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