On Tue, 25 May 1999 16:22:40 -0400, "A.M. Rutkowski"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>At 03:32 PM 5/25/99 , Karl Auerbach wrote:
>
>>However, NSI's continued hegemony over the core parts of the DNS is also a
>>threat to the the net.
>
>"Hegemony over the core parts..." In reality, that's all of
>3 TLD zone files. There's 246 other TLD zone files. There's
>one million other zone files - several of which are bigger
>than NSI's. How about DOC's hegemony over the root zone.
>How about ISC's hegemony over BIND. If we really want to
>go for broke, how about Cisco's hegemony over the router
>market - which gets touted a dozen times a night on national
>television. How about GAC's new hegemony over defining
>what constitutes Internet law and consumer interest served
>to you in a Communiqu�.
>
>In a world of big time hegemony, NSI's tiny piece doesn't
>amount to squat.
Under your logic here, Tony, just because the problems with NSI are
smaller than the potential problems ICANN presents, we should ignore
the issues relating to NSI????
Spare us. Significance isn't measured by that standard, and someone
with your legal training knows this.
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William X. Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
General Manager, DSo Internet Services
