Antony, Karl,
In message <001201be6b07$fcfdff00$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Antony Van
Couvering" writes:
> Karl Auerbach wrote,
> >
> >> There is no meaningful opposite to a registry constituency.
> >
> >Balderdash. Registries sell domain name licenses, other folks buy them.
> >They are in direct opposition.
The .NA ccTLD registry DOES provide a community service and free of
charge at that. MANY (emerging, developing) registries are
similar. Some of us do NOT want to make money of this.
> I wonder how we got to this class-warfare pass. RFC 1591 puts the
> function of the registry as being one of "service to the community",
> which is correct. People have poo-pooed my espousal of RFC 1591 in
> this regard as being motherhood and apple pie, of course no-one
> disagrees with those fine-sounding words, but in fact the whole
> project of identification of constituencies has turned everything
> into a big rights game.
What I can't understand is that after 30 years of computer science and
the rule "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" why we MUST now fix a DNS
that is not broken.
Of course, I do understand it: selling domains is a licence to print
money.
Obscene amounts in relation to the work performed, or rather work not
performed.
And my pet parasites, the Registrars...
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