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

Robert Foster rfoster at mountainvisions.com.au
Tue Oct 30 19:08:25 EST 2001


Just a thought, has anyone checked on wireless.info yet???

Robert Foster
Mountain Visions P/L
Australia.
rfoster at mountainvisions.com.au


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joseph Sirucka [mailto:jsirucka at dodgyware.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 30 October 2001 12:39 AM
> To: melbwireless at melbwireless.dyndns.org
> Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] more important issues <aka: guerilla radio
> is by ninjas, for ninjas. Worked for global IP's development!>
>
>
> Hi
>
> we decided to register a domain mountainwireless.org for us in the hills.
>
> were willing to adapt or change when the near future things happen.
>
> as for the wlan, it seems a great idea, but when will that happen.
>
> A net.au or a com.au or even a org.au takes some paper work to be
> registered or some associated body.
>
> oh we intend to put the inforamtion for how were going/doing in
> probably a week when we next get together.
>
> Joseph
>
> Adrian Close wrote:
>
> > 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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