Anthony,
Please help me understand how this is running roughshod over everyone.
Chuck
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Antony Van Couvering [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, March 21, 1999 2:32 AM
> To: IFWP List; Domain Policy Lists
> Cc: Mike Roberts; Esther Dyson; Karen A. Rose
> Subject: [IFWP] The day the InterNIC died
>
> Thank you NSI for giving us such a stunningly stark example of monopolist
> behavior.
>
> I think it's plain as day now that NSI will not work with the "community"
> to
> deal with domain registration problems. The redirection of all traffic
> from
> internic.net to networksolutions.com without the least warning is a spit
> in
> the eye of everyone who has to work with them.
>
> Despite the fact that I have been able to work with people from NSI (on
> the
> Paris Draft, for instance), and to come to common ground on a number of
> issues, this sort of behavior from a company in their position of power
> begs
> for a solution, and at this point I think there is only one solution:
> REGULATION, and lots of it.
>
> I am sorry it has come to this. NSI apparently just doesn't give a
> goddamn
> what anyone else thinks, they made that obvious today. Perhaps they are
> indeed powerful enough to run roughshod over everyone, time will tell.
> But
> I think a lot of people's positions will be hardened on the day the
> InterNIC
> died.
>
> Antony
