[MLB-WIRELESS] more important issues <aka: guerilla radio is by ninjas, for ninjas. Worked for global IP's development!>

[Steven Haigh]

damn stright... I'm working on getting wireless.org.au - but they keep
rejecting my applications... may have to talk to someone to find out what
I'm doing wrong :(

Signed,
Steven Haigh

Out the 100Base-T, off the firewall, through the router, down the T1,
over the leased line, off the bridge, nothing but Net.

The net will not be what we demand, but what we make it. Build it well.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Close" <adrian at close.wattle.id.au>
To: <melbwireless at melbwireless.dyndns.org>
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 2:55 PM
Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] more important issues <aka: guerilla radio is by
ninjas, for ninjas. Worked for global IP's development!>


> On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Steven Haigh wrote:
>
> > The idea I had for the new TLD of .wlan is because we know that we won't
> > trip over something in the near future.
>
> Can you give an example?
>
> What will you do if ICANN decides to implement a .wlan TLD for real?  Why
> not use something of a _real_ TLD and avoid the problem altogether.
>
> > I'm quite willing to run root DNS servers off my equipment to serve
> > these...
>
> This is exactly what you _don't_ want to do.  Remember, the only reason
> the Internet hangs together is consistency in things like global routing
> tables and global DNS.  You don't want to mess with this.
>
> I know .wlan is cute and I like the idea myself, but I can't see ICANN
> giving it to us... :)  So let's use something we _can_ get and register in
> the global DNS.  'wlan.net' is taken (porn site), but 'wlan.net.au' is
> still available.  Or 'melbwireless.[org/asn].au'.  Etc.  (Mind you, we
> don't want to get bogged down in arguing about what our [real] domain name
> should be...)
>
> We could do well to register something generically WLAN oriented and make
> subdomains available to other like-minded collectives...  Brownie points
> and kudos are useful in smoothing the way for other projects.
>
> Adrian Close email: adrian at close.wattle.id.au
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