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[Max Bellasys <info AT bellasys.com>]

Although I'm new to both this group and these discussions I joined OpenNIC 
and started participating in these discussions because I am interested in 
Founding a new Nation.

I submit this statement for consideration not because I actually wanted help 
doing this, but because it seems appropriate to suggest based on the current 
discussion.
The Nation I propose is landless and exists as an entity accessed via the 
internet. It is meant and positioned as a true cyber-nation, and one of its 
chief features is the ability to register businesses and offer dual 
citizenships. This is in response to taxation, which would exist but at a 
level similar to the way Bitcoin operates- functional toward sustained 
financial health but nominal in nature.

Because of the broad possible interpretation of my statement and the way it 
could sound off the rails as a proposed solution, as well as a solution 
that's potentially too long on implementation to achieve certain short term 
goals, I will assert that it is achievable leveraging the existing 
infrastructure at OpenNIC.

The ideas I have to charter an entire nation follow a fairly simple model and 
I have already created software that is intended to provide infrastructure 
for such an undertaking. Otherwise, this would be a half-baked dream rather 
than what I call a viable solution.

With crypto currency and the right type of distributed network- as well as 
"alternative" DNS, such an idea could work considering that I modeled it on a 
lean startup whose inception offers revenue generating methods immediately, 
and I believe that a viable offering of "an alternative to existing national 
business registries with their taxation models" is attractive at this stage 
of global economy.

Your thoughts?

~Max Bellasys

On Dec 28, 2014, at 12:32 PM, John Kozlowski (ShofarDomain.com) 
<John.Kozlowski AT ShofarDomain.com> wrote:

> 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 
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>> 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.
> 
> 
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