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

[Joseph Sirucka]

Steven

it seems even the wireless.com/net.org seem to be taken.

Joseph

Steven Haigh wrote:

> 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
> > 1 Old Gippsland Rd. web: http://www.close.wattle.id.au/~adrian
> > Lilydale, VIC, 3140, Australia mobile: +61 412 385 201
> >
> > Echelon teaser: MD5 RX-7 SSL Kiwi TRD DEADBEEF Bubba
> >
> >
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