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["John Kozlowski \(ShofarDomain.com\)" <John.Kozlowski AT ShofarDomain.com>]

I’m sorry, but I’m trying to understand what you mean.  Are you suggesting 
merging with the other non-ICANN entities or with all of them?

Please remember that it was made clear at WCIT 2012 in Dubai that a UN 
takeover of the Internet is brewing and control of the DNS via ICANN is 
desired.  This would allow a central authority to dictate what the Internet 
can be used for.  It is my hope OpenNIC will stand against this.

As for me, fragmentation is good.  Centralization is the end of freedom.  
Even a duopoly is centralization.

Respectfully,

John Kozlowski

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Subject: Re: [opennic-discuss] Proposal: Establishment of an OpenNIC 
foundation using OpenNIC funds

> For my part I desire to product a resolver that works with OpenNIC, ICANN, 
> INAIC, Name.Space, Unifiedroot, etc. and is not dependent on a single root. 
>  I had a rootless resolver and have withdrawn it as it is being updated, 
> but it should reappear.  This is my attempt at a technical response to a 
> political issue.  I do not need to be the only one doing so and I welcome 
> others to do the same or similar.  We don’t need just one way to do things.

Apologies for taking this off-topic, but I think that it would be a good idea 
to see if OpenNIC could attempt to do a merger with these other roots. 
There's no point in unnecessary fragmentation.