Tony Rutkowsi wrote:
>
> At 12:29 PM 7/29/99 , dibu wrote:
> >Well, I think is not the same.
> >
> >NSI domain names are international, but country code based
> domain names
> >not.
>
>
> From anticompetitive and functional standpoints, it is exactly
> the same. The market is the performance of registration/name
> resolution value added services for the Internet.
>
In principle, it is exactly the same, but not in practice.
The scope is different, and therefore the priorities are different.
As the old (italian) saying goes, Rome was not built in one day.
This means that if we proceed step by step, we should first assess the
larger problem, i.e. the problem of a monopolistic business based outside
Europe operating commercially in Europe, and therefore getting financial
resources out from Europe. If this fails to happen, there will be no point
in proceeding further with less important cases, which anyhow are referred
to policies under the control of the Member states (more or less).
This said, I believe that the European national TLDs will be unter pressure
to go to a competitive model (as the Telsos did in the past) and that
therefore "eventually" competition will be allowed in the ccTLDs, but I
share DG IV's POV that economically and politically NSI's monopoly in
"general purpose" (not nationally restricted) TLDs is a higher priority.
Regards
Roberto
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