John:
What you think of PGMedia's specific proposals does not really matter. What is
at issue in the lawsuit is the principle of non-discriminatory access to the
root. An antitrust lawsuit is not a substitute for a new system of root
administration. But it can establish the legal principles upon which a new
system of administration is based. The success of MCI's legal challenge to the
AT&T monopoly did not hinge upon its ability to propose an entirely new system
of long distance regulation. It simply had to prove that AT&T had engaged in
illegal attempts to shut it out of the market.
--MM
John B. Reynolds wrote:
> The reason for PGMedia's lack of support is that their stated plans are
> simply not credible. Their version of shared registries depends upon
> universal replacement of the existing DNS with their vaguely described and
> questionably feasible SINDI and PAM protocols. Their "interim solution" in
> the absence of these protocols would effectively give PGMedia absolute
> authority over all new TLDs, thereby replacing the existing NSI monopoly
> with an NSI/PGMedia duopoly.
