Kerry and all,
Good point here Kerry. >;)
Kerry Miller wrote:
> Dave,
> > Only through considerable pressure have people like Rutkowski and
> > Fenello finally acknowledged their affiliation to NSI -- while
> > simultaneously ly claiming that taking money from NSI doesn't
> > affect their opinion.
>
> It's a bit like the question whether you've stopped beating your wife,
> isnt it? It's easy to forget that a generation ago it was unthinkable
> that money influenced ones judgement -- now its taken for granted,
> but anyone asserting that they still hold to the old values of
> independent judgement are damned if they assert that
> 'simultaneous claim,' and damned if they dont.
>
> If one really wanted an independent domain-name-holders
> association, the rule need only be that the applicant is not corrupt --
> because that is what we're talking about, isnt it? If, then, some
> member is shown to be corrupt, that some decision is *not hys,
> but due to hyr corporate allegiance, then that member is expelled.
> What could be simpler? - certainly not any kind of _a priori_
> judgement, of the sort the Walshes of this world are determined to
> apply to each and every issue that is raised.
>
> Needless to say, I'm quite sure such a
> NonCorruptDomainNameConstituency will never be recognized, but
> the sooner the spade is identified as a spade, the more *profitable
> any further discussion will be.
>
> kerry
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