John and all,
John Charles Broomfield wrote:
> Hi William,
> Your comments sort of reinforce the idea that many of us have always
> had about it being a Bad Idea (tm) for a gTLD registry to be exclusively in
> the hands of a private for-profit company...
I don't see that whether a company is For-profit or non-profit really
would make much difference in this sort of situation. This sort of situation
could as easily manifest itself in a non-profit company as it could in
a for-profit company.
>
> Funny that when companies have (virtually) no oversight over what
> they are doing, they all seem to do as they please (precisely what many of
> us have said all along).
Agreed. And this is the crux of the problem. There is no public mechanism
that is effective, to insure oversight.
>
> I believe that giving a company "rights" to the registry of a given
> gTLD should be completely out of the question. "Leasing" out the running of
> gTLD registries in such a manner that the whole database remains under
> control of something like ICANN, however, would sound like a Good Idea (tm).
Yes, agreed, If that SOMETHING LIKE ICANN has public and stakeholder
oversight that is and can be effective, of course. What we are seeing thus far
from the current ICANN doesn't seem to meet that criterion however.....
>
>
> Yours, John Broomfield.
>
> > On 14-Mar-99 William X. Walsh wrote:
> > > My scripts are noticing some very unusual activity at whois.
> >
> > NSI has now removed all Contact information from the domain records. There is
> > no reference to Contact Handles, or anything when you look up a domain.
> >
> > This is crazy. NSI has once again made a major change in operations with NO
> > forewarning and no solicitation of comments. There will be a major outcry on
> > this one.
> >
> > I will email more later today on this, but I find this change unacceptable,
> > especially in the fashion in which it was implemented.
> >
> > This type of behavior by NSI has made me begin to seriously examine a change in
> > my personal position/opinions with regard to NSI. I've never felt that they
> > should be removed as the registry for com/net/org. Now, I'm not quite so sure.
> > I seriously consider their action to have been irresponsible and an affront to
> > the rest of their neighbors on this internet to have done it without advance
> > notice and without input.
> >
> > Perhaps it is time for a push on our Congress and Senate to examine the
> > situation more closely with regard to the US Commerce Dept and NSI.
> >
> > I once again express my hope that this is a TEMPORARY situation and that no
> > permanent changes have taken place. But in light of the recent record NSI has
> > of making changes such as this without regard for the rest of the internet and
> > the network operators, I'm not that hopeful.
> >
> >
> > ----------------------------------
> > E-Mail: William X. Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: 14-Mar-99
> > Time: 02:16:31
> > ----------------------------------
> > "We may well be on our way to a society overrun by hordes
> > of lawyers, hungry as locusts."
> > - Chief Justice Warren Burger, US Supreme Court, 1977
> >
> >
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