On Thu, 10 May 2001, Swerve wrote:
> Hey Patrick,
>
> Not sure your sig increases my confidence in what new.net is doing.
>
> > Patrick Greenwell
> > Earth is a single point of failure.
I'm actually posting from a personal account. My sig line is a bit of
Systems Architect humor. When designing systems it is generally a good
idea to avoid single points of failure. When you take this ideal to the
extreme, you end up in the above situation. :-)
>
> Besides that point, I have some serious concerns about a private entity
> ultimately attempting to control potentially hundreds, if not thousands, if
> not tens of thousands of .tld's. This a very serious issue.
We take what we do pretty seriously. Again, we're a market-based effort.
We don't hide, nor do we apologize this for this. While I appreciate your
concerns regarding control, if we do a bad job then people won't use
us. The only way in which we will gain control of thousands of tlds is if
people choose to use us. That means we have to be responsive to what
consumers and our customers want. This is in marked contrast to ICANN
which is attempting to gain control over thousands of tlds by demanding
it and ruling over the space.
> Beyond the arguement of hey, no one else has done it well, Icann's too slow,
> etc, if new.net becomes very successful, i would argue that you will have
> too much power over the name space. I am sure your team is working 15 hours
> a day, seven days a week like a lot of us, but, i'll repeat, i am very
> concerned that a corporation that is likely owned by 10-50 individuals,
> would assume that much power. How many shareholders do you have, what are
> the names of the top 5 shareholders?
I don't believe the information is relevant to the conversation, nor would
I provide it to you, sorry.
> What kind of ethics does your company practice?
What specifically would you like to know in this regard?
> Which countrys laws do you abide by?
U.S. currently, although as we move into other countries I'm pretty
certain we will be respecting the laws of the relevant countries.
> Do you practice censorship?
Could you be more specific? We do provide services to the .kids TLD, and
they have a charter which provides for only "kids-friendly" content, but
to date that is the only "censorship" that I am aware of.
> As much as i can't bloody stand how Icann and WIPO are in collusion, and
> it's a small group of people, at least the commerce dept, or whichever body
> that is, can ultimately kick Icann and WIPO's ass if they need to/want to.
And law enforcement, the FTC, and anti-trust divisions of the USG can kick
our rears if we were to behave badly.
Further the commerce dept. doesn't contol WIPO, which is an international
treaty organization.
> Who's interest does new.net serve?
>
> (please don't tell me, "our customer")
Why not? That is what our busines is based on, and who is paying our
bills. If we aren't serving our customers interests, then perhaps you
might be able to tell me whose interests we are actually serving? :-)
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Patrick Greenwell
Earth is a single point of failure.
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