cook: when mike roberts instead of maintaining professional neutrality to
NSI stand up and speaks in berlin of NSI as everyone's favorite monopoly
and registrar criteria give ICANN power to disenfranchise NSI essentially
at will, I'd say NSI has reason to be extremely careful....
Icann has been very clear about its intentions
>On Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 12:00:13AM -0400, Gordon Cook wrote:
>> with the hope that NSI will be stupid enough to sign their registrar
>> guidelines, they are trying to use NSI to construct a laboratory to be
>> used in luring the rest of us inside so that they can do to us whatever
>> they wish. i have talked to four different people today and all four are
>> of the emphatic opinion that if NSI signs those gvuidelines it is signing
>> its own death warrent
>
Crispin >That is, those four people, and obviously you as well, believe that
>NSI is incapable of surviving in an environment where it must compete
>on an equal footing. All the other .com/.net/.org registrars would
>exist under the EXACT SAME CONDITIONS, after all. The conditions may
>be onerous, they may have all kinds of other problems, but they are
>the SAME for *all* the registrars, NSI included.
>
>--
>Kent Crispin "Do good, and you'll be
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] lonesome." -- Mark Twain
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