At 06:51 PM 7/18/99 -0700, you wrote:
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>In other words, if there were to be established a viable non-ICANN root
>system, then all this effort to establish advisory committees, Supporting
>Organizations, WIPO rules, ADR, taxes/fees, etc would all exist only on
>those things willing to voluntarily accept the rules derived from the
>ICANN root (and possibly the ICANN TLDs). Everyone and everything else
>would be exempt.
>
> --karl--
>
Which certainly has its appealing aspects. But 'splain something: I'm
sitting here on, say, a xxx.com or a xxx.net ISP, and I want to search a
.per or a .biz, or more exactly I want to search on whatever, some of
which may happen to be on .per or .biz. Alternatively, I want all the people
on .per and .biz to find my pages, of which (as happens to be the case)
I have one on .com and another on .net. How do we communicate?
Or are we existing as in the latest pseudo-physics fad, alternative universes;
coexisting in time and space but separated by a warp factor, a wrinkle in
the continuum, or whatever?
Bill Lovell
http://cerebalaw.com
http://wend.net (not yet posted)
