[ga] Response to: http://www.circleid.com/article/663_0_1_0_C/

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 Keith and all,

First off, the site finder affair was one
borne of ideology rather than of technical
error or incorrectness.  This was understood
long ago now and discussed at great length
on the now ICANN discredited DNSO/GNSO GA
list forum, see archives: http://www.dnso.org/dnso/gaarchives.html
So perhaps this was before your involvement with ICANN and
it's now growingly sorted, disturbing and disruptive history as I
have not seen your name anywhere on any public ICANN forum,
which by the way, have been nearly all eliminated.

  As for Site Finder being a concern, your right, it was not
and would not be now, contrary to many "ICANN'ites",
ICANN BoD members, and ICANN staff members.  Yet
the bad "Deal" the than questionably constituted ICANN
BoD made with NSI/Versign regarding .COM, .NET, and
.ORG was the beginning of a rocky and contentious attitude
that ICANN BoD wished to devise in order to make itself
seem the savior for stakeholders/users, using then NSI
as the "Evil Doers".  However when Verisign bought
out NSI, and made certain business decisions, it decided
to build a better mouse trap for Whois and called it Site
Finder.  It's conception was and still is based on already
existing IETF RFC's yet some of the faithful ICANN'ites
wanted a "One size fits all" Whois protocol methodology
only.  Hence, Site Finder did not fit that technically ideological
of the Steve Crockers/ Vent Cerf's of the some Internet
notoriety and perhaps miss attributed fame.  Yet a reported
full 80% of those that used Site Finder were very pleased
with it.

  So in conclusion and to make a long saga a bit short here
and in the interest of brevity, the Security and Stability report
is yet again another reflection of ideology rather than a report
borne of accuracy and good sound technical fact.  This is
typical of ICANN however...

Regards,

--
Jeffrey A. Williams
Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 134k members/stakeholders strong!)
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