Gordon and all,
I would have to agree with Gordon here. ICANN and in specific
Mike Roberts, Esther Dyson, and Joe Simms have not been conducting
themselves in the best interest of the stakeholder community as a whole
in as much as remaining neutral in their attitude towards NSI. If I were
in a decision position with NSI I would be very weary of the ICANN and
it's intentions with respect to my customer base and my business.
ICANN has abundantly shown that it has little interest in the benefit of the
Stakeholder community in its arbitrary decisions to date, and is only
seemingly seeking to "Capture" the entire DNS, along with the
IP address space. As such, it is incumbent on NSI in order to protect
it's position in the industry, it's customer base, and it's stock holders
to be cautious and insistent on certain precepts. What those precepts
should be determined by it's customer base and it's stock holders
of course. It would be wise for NSI to get a good handle on that element
so as to be able to be prepared to support their position. I am not
sure that they have done this to the extent that they need to or should
however....
Gordon Cook wrote:
> 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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