At 02:44 PM 3/22/99 -0500, Antony Van Couvering wrote:
>Actually, Stef, I agree with you about the necessity of new gTLDs in the
>root. I don't think that's controversial. In fact, I dare you to find
>anyone who disagrees with that (though you may find some variation on how
>long it should take, and how).
That is only true since this week-end. Infact, Mr. Broomfield may still
argue with this. Certainly, Ronda would disagree.
>What I'm interested in knowing is not what is to be done about the root of
>the problem, pun intended, but about NSI's unannounced and damaging (to any
>competitor) evisceration of the InterNIC.
IMHO, NSI has decided that they no longer need the InterNIC for revenue and
that they own/control COM/NET/ORG.
>To be honest, I'm especially interested to find out if those people who've
>been taking NSI travel and accommodation money are muzzling themselves over
>what seems to me (and plenty of others) to be a clear case of abuse of
>monopoly power.
I think you'll find that those folks have not had the time to respond
properly yet and many of them agree with what has already been said. "me
too" responses are generally not given. The lack of one does not perforce
indicate support for the opposing position.
>So far everyone who's been very eager to denounce the perfidies of ICANN,
>which to date hasn't done, and hasn't been able to do, anything one way or
>the other to improve or disturb business on the Internet, has been noticably
>silent, or has retreated into vague statements of principle. I don't
>believe NSI has sent out any "directives" to its "operatives", but
>self-censorship is a funny and insidious thing. Any decent social history
>of the Eastern Bloc will confirm that. I recall seeing messages from you
>recently about how you criticized NSI when it did something wrong, and
>supported it when it did something right.
>
>So I say to you, either criticize them if you think what they did is wrong,
>or tell me why you think it's the right thing.
Political positions and alliances are a strange set of beasts. They also
have many facets. One can not make assumptions that just because one has a
collaborration on one hand, that a disagreement on the other hand is not
possible. Likewise, disagreement on one front does not necessitate
disagreements on ALL fronts.
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